Natasha Vidger's sprawling prepared canvas delineated with life sized animal portraits, probe the duality that separates and unites humans and animals. Employing expressive realism, Vidger paints a stage for viewers to come face to face with these animals. The canvases are aged with natural elements to offer a respite from traditional, romanized landscape. The landscapes are void and atmospheric, denoting the isolated environments they are forced to traverse. Vidger’s work ultimately aims to shed light on our similarities to provoke…