Author Description

One of Canada’s most innovative artists Wanda Koop has worked as a painter and video artist for nearly three decades. During this time she has created an overwhelming body of work delineated by distinct suites that are tied to an overarching critique of how modes of technology impact nature. In her exploration of the ‘interface’ between technology and the natural world, Koop employs a distinctive visual language of culturally encoded signs and symbols that describe and idea of place. Her vision - an prodigious union of the strategies of abstraction with the traditions of landscape painting - reflects both her conceptualist training and her personal influences, notably Georgia O’Keefe and Emily Carr. This original publication accompanies a retrospective touring exhibition initiated by two of the country’s most prestigious institutions, the National Gallery and the Winnipeg Art Gallery.