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with Conner Gordon
Saturday, October 05 - 2:00PM to 3:00PM
The images in The Overlook are made in the scenic viewpoints that dot the Oregon Coast,which attempt to flatten the land into a singular, definitive vista. Within these spaces, Gordon photographs the landscape through strategies that seemingly embrace this framing; some images, made on a large format camera, reproduce scenic overlook infrastructure in exacting detail, while others chase the sublime through the tunnel-like view of a pair of binoculars.
He will discuss this work in relation to the legacy of American landscape photography, as well as connect it to broader dialogues surrounding representations of landscape in art. In doing so, I hope to explore ways that we as artists can forge renewed relations to place through photography while acknowledging (and working to counteract) landscape photography's complicated history, particularly in the American West.
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