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Courtesy Thunder Bay Art Gallery
George Raab: "Early Thaw"
“Early Thaw,” an intaglio print, 23 3/4 by 10 inches, is indicative of the works in the exhibit “Into The Woods: Etchings by George Raab.”
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Courtesy Thunder Bay Art Gallery
George Raab: "Mystree VI"
There’s no denying the mystery in George Raab’s photo-based intaglio prints that portray the Canadian forest. A traveling exhibition of the artist’s work, “Into The Woods: Etchings,” will be on display at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery this spring.
The printmaker, who was born in Marseille, France, lives with his family on a farm in Millbrook, Ontario, northeast of Toronto, and is known for wilderness landscape etchings.
“I turn to our natural environment for a sense of peace and solace and for artistic inspiration,” George says on his website. “Printmaking, my chosen medium, is very indirect and elusive. In these intaglio prints there is a sense of the mystery of the wild lands we all need in order to better know ourselves.”
“Into The Woods” was organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Peterborough, Ontario. Carla Garnet, its curator, writes that the artist’s imagery “reveals expanses of treed space that can be scrutinized from many perspectives – technically, spiritually, politically and aesthetically. … The (prints) provide the immersive experience of being in the woods, while also implying a certain fragility and vulnerability.”
“Into The Woods: Etchings by George Raab” runs April 19 to June 15. Thunder Bay Art Gallery, 1080 Keewatin St., Confederation College campus. 807-577-6427. www.theag.ca.