ART OPENING – Studio 13 Fine Art – we made it through the wilderness

we made it through the wilderness Group Exhibition Studio 13 Fine Art 1315 Railspur Alley, Vancouver, BC V6H 4G9 Oct 10-18, 2024 Opening Welcome – October 10th from 5:30pm – 8pm Artist Talks – October 12th, 4pm we made it through the wilderness is a collective show about landscape and what it means to be an artist at this point in our climate history. Through two artist residencies led by Lisa Cristinzo and Liz Toohey-Wiese, 18 artists examined the importance of landscape art in the context of the deforestation of 85% of the world’s forests, uncontrollable wildfires, and catastrophic climate hazards that disproportionately affect the most vulnerable. In the geological era of the Anthropocene, an eta defined by humans’ extensive impact on the earth’s geologic makeup, how can humans deepen and balance the relationship between the material and energetic world? What if we held vital matter and its properties with the same rights and freedom, we all strive to have? And are artists the ones that are truly in the position to make “matter” matter? This show is the culmination of these artists’ experiences and depictions. Curated by: Diane Blunt Featuring Artists: Zoe Alexis Abrams Judy Blue Anderson Lee Angold Afifa Bari Diane Blunt Gizem Candan Teresa Chan Lisa Cristinzo Levi DeCoste Ana Diab M Gnanashihamany Shawn Grey Alexandra Iorgu Taline Kavoukian Hannah Materne Michelle Purchase Annie Robinson Liz Toohey-Wiese Artists Talks Moderated by: Skai Fowler