Gallery 110
June, 2008
June 5 - 28, 2008
UNNATURAL WORLD
People and the Landscape
Susan Arthur 
Michael Brophy
Holly Ives
Jason Sobottka
Ellen Wixted
Change in the landscape is inevitable, and everything we do leaves a mark.
This exhibit brings together works by five contemporary artists whose art is informed by the effects of civilization on the landscape -- a realm of constant change that inspires despair, nostalgia and pride by turns.
As the landscape historian J.B. Jackson observes “we must learn to differentiate among those wounds created by greed and destruction, those which serve to keep us alive, and those [changes] inspired by a love of beauty and order.”
Power, economics, ideals and the will to assert control have everything to do with what happens to the land; that awareness of worldly concerns informs this work as much as our own emotional response to a meadow scraped bare or the scraggly aftermath of a clear cut.
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IN THE LOFT
Amy Oates: Cliffs and CrowdsThe Loft at Gallery 110 is a great little space highlighting the work of one of our members. This month, Amy Oates graces us with her prints and mixed media drawings which relate the human figure to forms found in natural cliff formations.
Speaking to the Unnatural World exhibition happening in the main gallery, Oates work draws attention to the similar visual rhythms that occur in both cliff faces as well as in crowds. As Oates states, "The energy within both cliffs and crowds recalls to mind the concept of the 'noumenon' found in Kant's philosophy: the 'unknown something.' They leave me with the impression that there may be more occurring than we can discern with our senses."
Above: Amy Oates, Knowledge and Mystery, Intaglio, 2005, 20 x 22 inches