In Dialogue with Carr: Douglas Coupland, Evan Lee, Liz Magor, Marianne Nicolson

Emily Carr remains a figurehead in the history of British Columbia art, especially in her representation of the natural world as it relates to the development of modernism. Carr’s images of the densely forested landscape of the West Coast and the totemic art of the First Nations peoples had an important effect on establishing a visual identity for the province and were deeply influential on both her contemporaries and subsequent generations of artists.
 
This exhibition strategically pairs the work of Emily Carr with key contemporary BC artists—Douglas Coupland, Evan Lee, Liz Magor and Marianne Nicolson—to draw out a dialogue between Carr’s legacy and the myriad ways in which artists respond to it.