About the Exhibition

The artist often captures microscopic images and videos in the development of her artwork. She habitually looks for repetition and pattern in forms and movements. The existence of mimicry in structures and behaviours that are reiterated across species and at different scales of life is an expression of forces of natural selection at work over millions of years.

These prints exhibit multiple ambiguities; they are abstract and referential, expressive and structured, constructed and dismantled, balanced and unsteady. Like any organism, the figurative component of each composition is to some degree interwoven with its environment. These etchings contemplate habitat, home, shelter, nest, pattern, recurrence, organization, and connectedness.

Artist Bio: Lisa Matthias is an artist residing in Edmonton, Alberta. She completed her Master of Fine Arts in printmaking at the University of Alberta, and prior to that carried out a Master of Science in plant ecology from the University of Manitoba, and a Bachelor of Science in ecology from the University of Guelph. Her artwork has been exhibited in a number of local and international shows.