Trish Shwart | I R L

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Trish Shwart, “I R L,” 2025

installation view (courtesy of the Gallery)

Artist's Reception: Thursday March 13 from 4 to 6 pm

The View Gallery is pleased  to be hosting this exciting exhibition of new painting by Victoria artist Trish Shwart. The real, the imagined, and/or the remembered landscape is the subject and inspiration for the collection of electrifying works the artist has selected to share with us.  With acrylic, spray paint, collage, stencil and the occasional Stabilo pencil crayon, Shwart weaves a mesmerizing spell that is part fairytale, part holiday snapshot, and part disaster movie. Large mixed-media paintings on panel and paper, small and intimate gouache paintings, along with a choice selection of oil pastels on paper, make up the works on display in this must-see exhibition.

I R L  (in real life) is a fresh look at the landscape through the lens of our contemporary moment. Living much of our lives through the mediating forces of screen technologies has forever changed our experience of the natural world. It is now more difficult than ever to have an authentic experience of our environment without first looking through the filters of nature documentaries, postcard images and/or Instagram posts. This alienation from the ecosystem on which we depend  is a starting point of Shwart’s new work.

Artist Talk: Friday March 14 from 12 -1 pm