Crossing Natures explores the influences and affinities that bring together Joyce Wieland (1931 – 1998), Christiane Pflug (1936 – 1972), Janet Morton (b. 1963) and Melanie Rocan (b. 1980), three generations of artists whose work defines a particular lineage in contemporary Canadian art, one that speaks to their individual temperaments as well as to the subjects that they share. Their work is characterized by their relationships to the natural world and to the domesticated spaces within it. Their paintings, drawings, sculpture and photographs can be further understood as representing personally charged psychological spaces of longing and hope that speak to our collective sense of selves. Like windows and doors, they are thresholds to experience. – Paul Petro, curator
Image Credit: Cheryl O’Brien
