Wanda Koop “INTERFACE” October 4 – 27, 2012

Watch our Video with Wanda Koop explaining the inspiration behind her cathartic new work:

INTERFACE features new landscape and portrait paintings that explore human emotion and our relationship to web and mobile based technologies. Paired together, the serene landscapes and emotionally charged portraits, articulate two perspectives of a similar experience. They activate each other, creating a dialogue about who we are as humans and reveal aspects of our human psychology.

Wanda Koop is one of Canada’s most distinguished and inventive artists. Her career spans three decades and includes over 50 solo exhibitions. Born in Vancouver, BC in 1951, the daughter of Russian Mennonite immigrants, Koop graduated from the University of Manitoba School of Art in 1973. She has travelled extensively, exhibiting in Canada, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, Brazil, Japan, USA and Italy (in conjunction with 2001 Venice Biennale) and most recently in India and China.

Koop has received numerous awards, including an induction to the Order of Canada in 2006. She received her Doctor of Letters from the University of Winnipeg in 2002 and from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in 2007. In May 2009 Koop received her third honourary degree, a Doctor of Law, from the University of Manitoba. Koop is also known for her community work, particularly the founding of the successful Art City Project (1998) – an art centre in Winnipeg that provides an opportunity for inner-city youth-at-risk to work with contemporary visual artists.

Wanda Koop’s artwork is represented in several prestigious museum collections including the National Gallery of Canada. In 2010, the National Gallery of Canada and the Winnipeg Art Gallery co-curated a 25-year survey exhibition of Koop’s work. “On the Edge of Experience” featured an overwhelming body of work that explored the relationship between nature and technology.

Link to Wanda Koop’s Artist Page HERE