Recreations of Myth and Spirit
Selina as Selene (Selene Descending)
oil on canvas, 36鈥 x 30鈥, 2021
Recreations of Myth and Spirit: A series of paintings by Samantha Harrison
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Location
Off Campus
Gallery at Queen's Park
Centennial Lodge, Queen's Park, New Westminster
Open to Public?
Yes
Recreations of Myth and Spirit seeks to recreate figures of mythological and religious origin as modern people.
In doing this an attempt is made to draw focus upon the idea that mythological and spiritual figures are deeply connected to 鈥 and inspired by 鈥 various aspects of the human condition, even the mundane.
The Gallery at Queen's Park
Centennial Lodge, Queen's Park, New Westminster
Open 10:00am - 2:00pm
Artist Talk
September 18
1:00pm - 2:00pm
About the Artist
Samantha Harrison (she/her) is an emerging oil painter and recent graduate of 色库TV, with a BFA in painting. She lives and works in Vancouver B.C., the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, the S岣祑x瘫w煤7mesh (Squamish), St贸:l艒 and S蓹l.` lw蓹ta蕯/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and x史m蓹胃k史蓹y虛蓹m (Musqueam) Nations. Her paintings usually feature the human figure or a still-life, usually painted in a Classical Realist, or Hyperrealist style.