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This is it with it as it is

this_is_it_poster_final-51_webExhibition: November 24, 2016 – January 14, 2017 (holiday closure December 10 – January 2)

Opening reception: Wednesday, November 23, 5 – 8 PM

Artist’s talk with Peter von Tiesenhausen: Thursday, November 24, 3 PM

Curator’s talk with Wil Aballe: Saturday, December 3, 2 PM

In Canada, art making concerned with landscape is unavoidably tied to the narratives of place – local and nationalist, Indigenous and non-Indigenous. The thematic of the Canadian landscape in Canadian art, say, through the viewpoint of artists such as Lawren Harris and A.Y. Jackson, is an expansive and problematic subject matter that came to communicate the character of a wildly romanticized northern environment.

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