Natural Extraction
a landscape of emerging artists
opening reception: Friday, May 1, 7 to 10pm
22 local artists draw inspiration from nature, distilling forms from the landscape to reorient themselves within the natural world. Although our species undeniably forms a part of a larger ecosystem, our relationship to this ecosystem grows ever more convoluted, as our constructed environments become considered an extension of nature itself.
Beginning in 2012, more than half the world’s population resided in cities. The romantic notion of unspoiled wilderness as a place of refuge and rejuvenation persists to this day. Yet our interpretations of landscape are inherently informed by our interpretations of urbanity; the boundaries between nature and man-made are confounded.
artists:
Cynthia Cao, co-curator
Annelise Hartley, co-curator
Shannon Belardi
Hung-Tsu Chen
Brian Estill
Kyoko Fischer
Amber Guerin
Jennifer Howell
Gloria Huet
Jaya King
Johanne Marion
Timothy McCaffrey
Kathleen McDonald
Kelly Otsuka
Joon Park
Carolyn Rowe
Ann Ryals
Kurt Salinas
Eric Shaffer
Jennifer Stombs
Robbie Sugg
Rob Toloy
On view through May 23.
