New! Emily Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery

A new year-long exhibition recognizes one of Emily Carr’s lifelong inspirations

Emily Carr: Navigating an Impenetrable Landscape opens on January 25 at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and you’re invited to be among the first to see it. Featuring more than 20 of iconic Canadian artist Emily Carr’s signature forest paintings, the exhibition recognizes the natural world as one of the artist’s lifelong inspirations. Emily Carr: Navigating an Impenetrable Landscape takes as its subject the proximity to and experience of nature within the forests that she painted.

Emily Carr captured the coastal forest landscape in a way previously unseen in British Columbian art. While others thought of the forests as dense and unappealing, she saw the vitality of the natural world and seized the opportunity to express it. Visitors will explore the spatial metaphor of closeness to and distance from nature as a means to thinking about Carr’s impenetrable forests.