Grasslands
COOPER COLE•Jul 16, 2026 — Sep 05, 2026
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COOPER COLE is pleased to present Grasslands, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Geoff McFetridge.
This new body of work extends McFetridge’s ongoing investigation into perception, memory, and the spaces between observation and imagination. Figures, animals, architecture, and landscape elements occupy scenes that feel at once recognizable and elusive, suspended between lived experience and dream.
The paintings evoke a cinematic stillness reminiscent of Alex Colville’s psychologically charged scenes, yet they turn westward into a distinctly unreal landscape where narrative remains suspended and unresolved. While rooted in observations of the everyday, the works in Grasslands carry traces of the vast horizons and spatial sensibilities of the Canadian prairies where McFetridge was raised. Familiar motifs appear transformed, existing somewhere between recollection and invention, certainty and dream.
Materially, the exhibition marks a subtle shift in the artist’s approach. Layers of oil…
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Grasslands
COOPER COLE•Jul 16, 2026 — Sep 05, 2026
Press Release
COOPER COLE is pleased to present Grasslands, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Geoff McFetridge.
This new body of work extends McFetridge’s ongoing investigation into perception, memory, and the spaces between observation and imagination. Figures, animals, architecture, and landscape elements occupy scenes that feel at once recognizable and elusive, suspended between lived experience and dream.
The paintings evoke a cinematic stillness reminiscent of Alex Colville’s psychologically charged scenes, yet they turn westward into a distinctly unreal landscape where narrative remains suspended and unresolved. While rooted in observations of the everyday, the works in Grasslands carry traces of the vast horizons and spatial sensibilities of the Canadian prairies where McFetridge was raised. Familiar motifs appear transformed, existing somewhere between recollection and invention, certainty and dream.
Materially, the exhibition marks a subtle shift in the artist’s approach. Layers of oil…
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