Geoff McFetridge’s latest exhibition, Grasslands, is now on view at Cooper Cole Gallery in Toronto through 5 September 2026. The new body of paintings draws directly from the Canadian prairies where the artist was raised, presenting rolling fields, quiet figures and expansive horizons that feel both familiar and slightly dreamlike.

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McFetridge channels a sense of charged stillness reminiscent of the late Alex Colville, allowing everyday rural scenes to hover between observation and imagination. In one work a figure lies afloat in soft grass, seemingly lost in rest or sky-gazing. In another, pickup trucks and boxy SUVs form a strange traffic circle in the middle of an open field, leaving the viewer to wonder whether the vehicles have been abandoned or are simply circling without destination. Figures, animals, architecture and landscape elements occupy these spaces with understated surrealism, tapping into nostalgia for life’s quieter, smaller moments.

Courtesy of the artist and Cooper Cole

The gallery notes that the work continues McFetridge’s ongoing investigation into perception, memory and the spaces between what is seen and what is felt. The paintings offer a brief refuge from the relentless pace of the present, encouraging viewers to slow down and linger. Located at 1134 Dupont Street in Toronto, Grasslands provides a calm and contemplative interlude that rewards patient looking.