we made it through the wilderness - the morning after Show opening - Oct 11 2024

we made it through the wilderness

Group Exhibition

Studio 13 Fine Art

1315 Railspur Alley, Vancouver, BC V6H 4G9

Oct 10-18, 2024

Opening Welcome – October 10th from 5:30pm - 8pm

Artist Talks – October 12th, 4pm



we made it through the wilderness is a collective show about landscape and what it means to be an artist at this point in our climate history. Through two artist residencies led by Lisa Cristinzo and Liz Toohey-Wiese, 18 artists examined the importance of landscape art in the context of the deforestation of 85% of the world’s forests, uncontrollable wildfires, and catastrophic climate hazards that disproportionately affect the most vulnerable.

In the geological era of the Anthropocene, an eta defined by humans’ extensive impact on the earth’s geologic makeup, how can humans deepen and balance the relationship between the material and energetic world? What if we held vital matter and its properties with the same rights and freedom, we all strive to have? And are artists the ones that are truly in the position to make “matter” matter?

This show is the culmination of these artists’ experiences and depictions.



Curated by:

Diane Blunt



Featuring Artists:

Zoe Alexis Abrams

Judy Blue Anderson

Lee Angold

Afifa Bari

Diane Blunt

Gizem Candan

Teresa Chan

Lisa Cristinzo

Levi DeCoste

Ana Diab

M Gnanashihamany

Shawn Grey

Alexandra Iorgu

Taline Kavoukian

Hannah Materne

Michelle Purchase

Annie Robinson

Liz Toohey-Wiese



Artists Talks Moderated by:

Skai Fowler