Curated by Pan Wendt

Inspired by a grand Victorian painting of an Alpine waterway commissioned by an eccentric German baron for his Nova Scotia mansion, this exhibition presents the work of contemporary East Coast artists grappling with the contradictory aesthetic inheritances of Romanticism and colonialism. Artists include Alfred Schoeck, D’Arcy Wilson, Doug Dumais, Gustav Amberger, Janice Wright Cheney, John Greer, and Ryan Josey, among others.

D’Arcy Wilson, Eye to Eye, 2025

Archival Inkjet Prints, Edition of 5
(Left Print: 52.5 x 40 cm, Right Print: 52.5 x 60 cm)
Courtesy of the artist

Doug Dumais, A Landscape for Construction (Return), 2020

Inkjet print on Entrada 300 White
60 x 80 cm
Background image: Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Dutch, 1525–1530 – 1569), The Return of the Herd, 1565, Oil on wood, 117 cm × 159 cm (46 in × 62 1⁄2 in), Gemäldegalerie, 1018, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Reproduced with permission from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna