Does the word landscape evoke images of mushroom cloud playhouses, movie sets or airline disasters?
The outside world collides with inner space in this multi-media exhibition of work by 10 artists who use everything from oil paint to web streaming to reveal truths about nature, suburbia, and urban civilization. Experience the way artists expand and compress space to offer their perspective on landscape. Grounding her nomadic existence in a virtual place, German artist Isabelle Jenniches (Amsterdam, NL) collects webcam images of a volcano in Japan. Her series of ethereal pictures is interrupted by gaps of missing data and a collage of news and pop-culture images streaming to her computer from Japan. Richard Garrison (Delmar, NY) uses Global Positioning System to survey the urban and suburban parking lots near his home. Replicating these places in the gallery, Garrison’s installation of precisely cut pieces of asphalt paper becomes an austere, displaced map. Diane Meyer’s (Brooklyn, NY) photographs take us cross country from an east coast office building in the path of a tornado to mou
