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Smithers, BC — The Smithers Art Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition SubTerrane by Terrace, BC, artist Angèle Karosi.

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SubTerrane is a visual exploration of consciousness and intuitive creation. This series is represented as psychic landscapes, similar to geological mapping, with varying layers and buttresses, membranes and barriers, caverns and canyons.

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The large scale of this series is intended to help create an immersive environment in which viewers can simultaneously take in the larger, broader universe or dive down into a myriad of pocket worlds, each having their own depth of details. In this way, the work functions a bit like a “choose your own adventure” story. These experiences may inspire a sense of discovery and excitement, like walking around a new city, or feelings of isolation and discomfort, like being caught at dusk on a dark path disappearing into the forest. At a quick glance, the paintings may appear to be large abstractions or resemble asymmetrical Rorschach tests.

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Just as Rorschach tests are used to analyse cognition and perception, Karosi’s work functions in a similar way, inviting the viewer to engage with the rhythm and movement of composition, initiating their own journey through the visual field and divining their own personal meaning through self-reflection. Karosi’s goal is to amplify feelings of isolation, anxiety, insignificance, awe and excitement in and by the vastness of it all; the mind, the universe, and the individual and collective experience.

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Based out of Terrace BC, Angèle is an Environmental Specialist by day and artist by night. Her work blends conceptual and process art that bridges surrealism and abstract expressionism. Her education includes Environmental Sciences at Selkirk College, Castlegar BC; Studio Art and Art History at Concordia University, Montreal, QC; and Arts and Cultural Management at MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB.

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Currently, she is an Environmental Consultant in the Natural Resource sector, with past experience spanning the not-for-profit arts community as a General Manager for Mile Zero Dance, a not-for-profit contemporary dance society, and as a Gallery Services and Exhibition Coordinator for Harcourt House Artist Run Centre

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