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By Sarah Bochicchio‍ ‍

Magnetic Field began in a forest. Wanda Koop was looking at the trees near her studio in Riding Mountain, Manitoba, when she noticed that they seemed to contain a message. Two trees angled towards each other, and another just to their right, appeared to spell those absolutely notorious letters: AI.

Garage, by Meg Whiteford
Jun 29, 2018

The hybrid screening and performance by these two artists of native ancestry—Ortman is White Mountain Apache and Latimer is Algonquin/Métis—was a closing ceremony of sorts for Canadian artist Wanda Koop’s solo exhibition, “Standing Withstanding,” which is on view through July 1.

Eyes Towards the Dove, by Katy Diamond Hamer
Jun 2, 2018

Artist Wanda Koop paints in a very lyrical way. She let’s the paint dictate the painting, not completely dissimilar from The Composition Series  by Kandinsky. Using acrylic in a watered-down format, Koop has been making work for forty years. In that time, she has inherently studied the medium, how it responds to various surfaces, and how to work in a way that is freeing and uninhibited. 

Whitehot Magazine, by WM Staff
May, 2018

A preeminent figure in contemporary Canadian art, Wanda Koop has been making waves stateside recently for her au courant paintings of silhouetted skylines that comment on the intersection between urbanism and the natural world.

Office Magazine, by Evan Nicole Brown
May 21, 2018

Walking through the space, an intimate and cool respite from the busyness of Bowery just outside, I couldn’t help but think about the impact of color, both in painting and in cultural conversations. Koop, a Winnipeg, Canada native, explains her relationship to cultural color early on: as a young girl, her family lived in close proximity to the Indigenous peoples of Winnipeg, and embraced one Native woman in particular as family.

Blake Gopnik on Art
May 7, 2018

THE WEEKLY PIC:For a couple of decades, Wanda Koop has been one of Canada’s most respected painters, but she’s only now getting a solo show in New York, at Arsenal gallery on The Bowery.

Artnet news
May 1, 2018

Canadian painter Wanda Koop gets her first major New York solo exhibition, showcasing her unique take on landscape painting, informed by globalization and the technological age, as well as the tradition of communal bonfires maintained by the indigenous people of her native Winnipeg