Final day to see Northern Catch by WFA artist Lindsay Dunnagan.

“This series is a pleasure project  inspired by my childhood of growing up in Anchorage, Alaska where I spent time by  the ocean and watched the sky for the Aurora Borealis.  Each piece is multi layered and includes images of fish nets, the shapes of icebergs, and patterns found in the Alaskan landscape, such as ice striations.  

Formally, some pieces are linked to one another because the series responds to and plays with process scraps.  For example,  Migrating Silver is made of several paper layers.   The top layer has a hole cut in the shape of a fish net.   Inside the hole are other fish net and ice berg shapes cut out of other paintings.   Every cut form becomes part of a new work.   

The playful process of this work parallels my glance back at childhood.   By manipulating shapes from the place I love, the work evokes a panglossian nostalgia. “