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MINE.YOURS.OURS.

Can we truly represent a place? Scores of artists, both professional and amateur, continuously attempt to answer this question. While many succeed, with our rapidly changing landscape and the overflow of natural imagery, one could argue that the significance of place has dissolved over the years. Yet landscape is closely linked to our notions of identity, history, cultural and personal memory and experience, and the artists in this exhibition capture place in new ways that reference what we once thought and still think the American landscape (truly) is.

Artists such as Ansel Adams, Minor White, Edward Weston and Aaron Siskind helped define traditional notions of landscape photography in the mid-twentieth century, and the latter three have photographs in the exhibition, exposing the similarities and differences between artists working now and then with this theme. Continuing to prove a tantalizing subject, the magnetic pull of the environment ensnared each artists’ interests differently. They expand upon traditionalism found within the early works by Siskind, Weston, and White and create works that move fluidly between fictive and non-fictive spaces. Challenging and enhancing collective knowledge and existing articulations of landscape, each artist allows new processes, and methods of display to be in the forefront of their work without losing sight of the actual landscape.

Curated by Rachel Adams, featuring William Lamson, Melanie Schiff, Barry Stone, Richard T. Walker, and Letha Wilson with works by Aaron Siskind, Edward Weston, and Minor White

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