“Cities are both real and imagined places. What’s interesting about Winnipeg and the reputation of its visual artists — both those who have left and those who continue to live here — is that the real and the imaginary have become indistinguishable. Because of the emergence on the international art scene of a group of artists… Winnipeg is now viewed in New York, Los Angeles and London as a place that has produced an inexplicable number of good artists… What is unquestionably true, however, is that Winnipeg has developed a keen sense of itself as an art city, and the success of their peers is a model on which the current crop of artists can imagine how they might flourish in the rough-and-tumble art world.”