In her new show “VIEW from HERE,” Winnipeg’s most famous contemporary painter takes on abstraction in a series of hybrid paintings that use abstract spaces as landscape settings for small human-silhouette figures. While some of the paintings are small, this is poignant and inventive work that stakes Koop’s claim as one of the country’s best painters and raises expectations for the 30-year survey exhibition that launches at the Winnipeg Art Gallery in fall 2010. Few Canadian painters have produced such a varied body of work while sustaining such consistent quality.