July Issue 2001
Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Offers Exhibit on the American Landscape
Hodges Taylor Gallery in Charlotte, NC, announces
the opening of its invitational summer exhibition, entitled Reconstructing
Eden: Looking at the Contemporary American Landscape, curated
by gallery associate, Mary Edith Alexander, which will be on display
July 10 through Aug. 31, 2001.
The opening reception will be co-sponsored by Trust for Public
Land, a non-profit conservation organization whose goal is to
bring private land into public ownership for use as parks, natural
areas, and recreational open space. Information about the TPL
membership applications will be available at the reception. A
portion of sales on the night of the opening will go to benefit
the Trust.
Reconstructing Eden
is a survey show, which explores the theme of landscape in contemporary
art. The American landscape is changing at an ever-increasing
speed and those changes dramatically affect people's relationship
and reaction to the new "scape". The purpose of the
show is to present the breadth of images and ideas with regards
to the land as well as the changes. More than thirty gallery artists,
in a variety of media, will be represented in the exhibition.
Included in the show are photographers Rob Amberg, Byron Baldwin,
Carl Bergman, Tim Buchman, Carolyn DeMeritt, Susan Page, and Martha
Strawn. Amberg's photographs record the construction of I-26 through
Madison County, NC, while Carl Bergman's layered images speak
of the changing landscape/cityscape around Charlotte. DeMeritt's
work deals with Native Americans and their struggle to re-establish
and maintain their relationship with the land. Susan Page's series
"Long Road Home" deals with the haunting landscape of
Pitt County's tobacco farms.
Painters represented in the exhibition are Beverly Buchanan, Henry
Coe, David Dooley, Charley Farrell, Richard Fennell, Mark Flowers,
Maud Gatewood, Tony Griffin, Paul Harcharik, Frank Hobbs, Jayne
Johnson, Jeanne Keck, Robert Marsh, Eric Olsen, Matt Overend,
Edward Rice, Andrea Rosenberg, Ryan Russell, Tom Stanley, and
Robert Stuart. The paintings vary from beautiful observations
of land and light as seen in the work of Tony Griffin and Richard
Fennell to Tom Stanley's paintings that combine references of
the built environment with abstract forms to the analytical compositions
of Maud Gatewood.
In works on paper, printmakers Donald Furst, Art Werger, and Phil
Garrett will be represented in the show along with Virginia draughtsman,
David Dodge Lewis. Both Furst and Werger use the etching process
of mezzotint to create images of their immediate environment,
cataloguing both the urban, suburban and the enigmatic. South
Carolina artist, Phil Garrett creates monotypes of reclaimed landscapes,
such as Hunting Island and Jones Gap. Both sites were misused
and are now state parks. Lewis' work for the show consists of
oblong, mixed media drawings of the rocky Maine shoreline as seen
from above. These eight-foot long works present the viewer with
a fragmented, but highly realistic view of the coast.
Ceramic sculptor Keith Bryant makes work that is at once three-dimensional and pictoral, utilizing perspective and implied narrative. Polish sculptor Marek Ranis' sculpture incorporates shredded American dollars and the Piedmont's red clay soil in pieces, which point to the commodification of the land. The work of Rudy Rudisill refers to the architectural vernacular associated with North Carolina's agricultural past in the forms of barns, porches, and farmhouses, recombining them to make new forms in galvanized steel and copper.
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