Lynn Malin | LANDWATCH - EVOLUTION

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Lynn Malin, “Fall Along the River,” 2023

oil mixed media on Lexan on acrylic (courtesy of the Gallery)

Gallery@501 is pleased to present LANDWATCH - EVOLUTION by Edmonton artist Lynn Malin. 

“Living in a specialized municipality with both urban and rural areas, we get to experience a unique environment” says Kris Miller, Gallery@501 curator. “This exhibit celebrates the beauty and resiliency of the local landscape and will resonate with many gallery visitors.” 

In LANDWATCH - EVOLUTION, Lynn Malin takes viewers on a bird’s-eye journey over Strathcona County and surrounding areas. Large painted canvases of fields, trees, prairie grasses and rolling hills set the stage in the exhibit.  

Using inspiration from aerial photographs, she captures the natural forms of the land along with the intersecting patterns of agriculture and infrastructure development. In her mixed media work, Malin uses prints from chain link fence, chicken wire, grates, meshes, lace and other grids to represent these patterns.  

Many of Malin’s pieces are created on Lexan, a durable clear plastic that enhances the translucency of colour and light. She focuses on expressing the natural light that illuminates and animates the land, along with colourful seasonal changes and the effects of natural phenomena such as fires, drought and floods.  

Malin states that “these works will seem familiar, yet at the same time evoke the universal – the interplay of humans and nature; the human imprint and order that’s imposed on nature’s glorious chaos”.