June 25 – September 5, 2010
Opening: Thursday June 24, 7–9 pm

Humans are natural creatures, yet we set ourselves apart from nature through the cultural systems and objects we’ve created. The artists in Strange Nature work with natural materials to explore the ways we think about, interact with, and alter nature. Jennifer Angus wants us to think about the essential role played by insects in world ecology, presenting her elaborate dollhouse worlds populated by insect people. Vancouver artist, Robin Ripley’s work, Threnody, is composed of gathered, sorted and mended leaves pinned to the wall—acts of conservation and transformation that point to the natural cycles of life, death and rebirth.


Left: Jennifer Angus, Small World: Secrets of a Collector, detail, 2009
Robin Ripley, Threnody, detail, 2009