Society and Culture, Students
alissa rossi, MFA Printmaking: The View From Where
2022–23 Ticket Information
FAB Gallery, 1-1 Fine Arts Building
University of Alberta
(780) 492-2081
gallery@ualberta.ca
Gallery Hours
Tuesday to Friday
12:00pm–5:00pm
Saturday
2:00pm–5:00pm
Admission is free. Masks are strongly recommended indoors on the University of Alberta campus.
alissa rossi, MFA Printmaking: The View From Where
October 11– November 05, 2022
FAB Gallery
Second Floor
Opening Reception
University of Alberta faculty, staff, students and invited guests
Thursday, October 13
7:00–9:00pm
FAB Gallery
About the Exhibit
The View From Where uses the boreal forest of British Columbia and western Alberta to explore how global extractive capitalism and the ongoing climate crisis manifest on a local level. This work counters the human- and western-centric ideas of the Anthropocene—a name for the current geological era marked by human activity—by exploring how the human, the technological, and the ecological are not separate from but deeply enmeshed with each other. The work proposes a view of ecology that sees humans and our technologies not as separate from and superior to the ecological world, but as one of several forces that shape the ecological world we live in, a view from which we might more successfully negotiate the ongoing and cataclysmic shifts in climate.
alissa rossi grew up in the Fraser Valley in BC in a family whose income was directly connected to the forestry industry. She spent her childhood summers in the Chilcotin-Caribou where mountain pine beetle first began to exhibit adaptive behaviour that led to the destruction of much of BC’s pine forest.