Night Gallery is pleased to present the first American solo show of one of Canada’s most distinguished and inventive artists, Wanda Koop. The body of work presented here, In Absentia, explores the connection between urbanism and the natural landscape. The paintings reference her memories of the New York skyline following a four-month residency in the city. In a 2016 interview with Robert Enright, Koop recalls her first impressions looking out of her high-rise loft: “There was no solid wall; it was floor-to-ceiling glass from one end to the other. I just started taking pictures and making drawings and I ended up filling all these sketchbooks... The morning after the day I arrived a hawk flew by. From where I was positioned, the sky was bigger than the city. There was nothing blocking my view. The whole thing was stupendous.”