Apr 3 – 27, 2025

Opening Reception: Sat. April 5th, 2pm – 4pm

In the Main Gallery

CAROLINA FRANZEN | Man Made Cloud

Artist Talk with Carolina Franzen: Sat. April 12th, 2pm – 3pm

Fine, detailed, colourful linework sensually evolves into expansive landscapes which subtly engage with the beholder and their preconceptions. Pulp products are reversed into tree, sky, and seascapes. Using colourful pencil and felt pen on found and canvassed industrial packaging paper, Man Made Cloud is an ongoing series first begun in 2021. The materiality of the work and the process behind each piece shine through the finesse of the linework. The negative spaces of brown carton papers are elevated to show growth as dense and vivid as the trees which make up the paper may have once been.

Carolina Franzen holds an MA in History of Art and a PhD focussing on genocide and philosophy. She has explored active and academic ways of living around the Salish Sea since 2013. In 2024 Franzen exhibited her sculptural work, slyly swift assemblages made of found objects, in GPAG’s Joe’s Lounge; now, she returns through this exhibition in the Main Gallery to works representing the forms of land. Her drawings engage us with the quality and tranquility of a different pace, reminiscent of the deeper sense of geologic time. She invites us to charmingly clouded ice-berg tips, and to the beauty of a world void of human bodies.