Reading the Earth curated by Deborah Davidson

with Stephanie Anderson, Nicole Duennebier, Joerg Dressler, Steve Imrich, and Wilhelm Neusser

Thursday, June 15th
Gallery Talk with the Shana Dumont Garr at 5:30pm
Continuing with artists in the exhibit at 6:00pm, Reception to follow

Landscapes are culture before they are nature: constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. So goes the argument of this book. But it should be acknowledged that once a certain idea of landscape is a myth, a vision establishes itself in an actual place, it has a peculiar way of muddling categories, of making metaphors more real than their referents; of becoming, in fact, part of the scenery.

Simon Schama, Landscape And Memory, pg 61