Greg Hardy: The Sky That Looks Back opens on Saturday, February. 28th. Please join us for an artist talk with Greg Hardy and Gerald McMaster on Saturday, February 28th at 1PM followed by an opening reception through 3PM. RSVP here.
"Greg Hardy’s paintings open like weather fronts. They do not simply depict landscape; they translate the sensation of being claimed by it, including the pressure shift before a storm, the drift of cloud mass over open fields, the mirrored stillness of northern water, the immensity of Prairie light. Across five decades, Hardy has developed one of the most distinctive and enduring practices in Euro-Canadian landscape art, building a body of work rooted not in representation but in perception, not in scenery but in sensory experience. Born and based in Saskatchewan, Hardy works within, and subtly reconfigures, the national discourse on land, identity, and the sublime.
This exhibition and its accompanying essay examine the evolution of Hardy’s atmospheric intelligence: the intuitive and formal decisions that bring his skies to life, the perceptual training of his Prairie childhood, the crucial influence of the Emma Lake Workshops, and his deep engagements with the northern regions around La Ronge. Hardy’s paintings invite us not only to see weather, but to feel ourselves inside it."
- Excerpt from The Sky as Threshold: Greg Hardy and the Phenomenology of Prairie Weather by Gerald McMaster. Read the full essay here.
