Field Visions
Field Visions explores the possibilities of landscape 鈥� specifically, how abstraction, metaphor, and materiality are leveraged to open up these possibilities, and in doing so, render nature into an abstraction that becomes landscape. While each artist propels their unique poetic visions through an established genre, they also push material and the fiction outward, tree-like, proving that the field of landscape painting is not only pliable but expansive, and imagination is constantly unfolding and inventing new spaces.
For any painter, the assumption of the field must eventually be addressed. While the picture plane isn鈥檛 always front and center in the pretense of the painting, it is always front and center. It is an area where transformation is wrought. For some painters, this space is narrative; for others, referential 鈥� but for all artists, this field is what hedges in their creative energies and allows them the freedom to give it shape.
Field Visions explores the possibilities of landscape 鈥� specifically, how abstraction, metaphor, and materiality are leveraged to open up these possibilities, and in doing so, render nature into an abstraction that becomes landscape. While each artist propels their unique poetic visions through an established genre, they also push material and the fiction outward, tree-like, proving that the field of landscape painting is not only pliable but expansive, and imagination is constantly unfolding and inventing new spaces.
For any painter, the assumption of the field must eventually be addressed. While the picture plane isn鈥檛 always front and center in the pretense of the painting, it is always front and center. It is an area where transformation is wrought. For some painters, this space is narrative; for others, referential 鈥� but for all artists, this field is what hedges in their creative energies and allows them the freedom to give it shape.
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