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Manifest Creative Research Gallery: VISTA landscape in contemporary art - 28 Sept 2013 to 25 Oct 2013 Current Exhibition |
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Colin Blakely
New Topographies I |
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VISTA landscape in contemporary art Main Gallery + Drawing Room SEASON 10 Opening Party - Friday, September 27, 6-9p.m. Exhibit continues: September 28 - October 25, 2013 THIS IS A SPECIAL PROJECT in support of The Nature Conservancy: Manifest will be contributing 30% of its proceeds from sales of works in VISTA to the Nature Conservancy in an effort to help offset our own, and our patrons', carbon footprint. VISTA launches Manifest's 10th season, which marks an evolutionary step for the non-profit organization, including the first ever increase in free public hours by 30% (now open from noon to 7pm Tuesdays through Fridays, and noon to 5pm on Saturdays.) More details about MANIFEST X (season 10) will be provided in a forthcoming announcement. "We need nature, and particularly its wilderness strongholds. It is the alien world that gave rise to our species, and the home to which we can safely return. It offers choices our spirit was designed to enjoy." - Edward O. Wilson, The Future of Life Landscape: It's much more than a pretty picture, a view through a window, a morning sunrise, or a forested hillside. Today landscape has come full circle to encompass humanity despite our attempts to subdue, reform, resist, and conquer it. We are finally realizing the limits of our sphere and our connection to it. What was once a vast sea of natural form grown in place through millennia has now been largely measured, marked, peeled back, and defined by the human race. Like some tolerant hidden giant bearing the weight of one species, the Earth and the land it spawned us from defines us, yet quietly defies us. Landscape is where we come to terms, discover hope, and take a broader view. Inevitably it is also where we recognize that the limitation of our landscape is also probably our own; it is a critical vista. In honor of all the Earth has given and continues to give, Manifest invited artists, designers, architects, and others to submit artwork to this competitive juried exhibit which will mark the opening of our 10th season of exhibitions. Manifest is pleased to share this carefully selected collection of works featuring Landscape as their common theme, by artists representing an incredibly broad geographical radius. This exhibit had no predefined expectation for type, style, or media of work to be considered or selected. Submissions were expected to range from the most traditional to the most conceptual. The only criteria beyond excellent quality was the theme of Landscape, which could range from small to vast, urban to rural, real or imagined. VISTA received a record number of entries for a gallery project at Manifest. Our several-member blind jury process reviewed 1,020 works by 409 artists from 43 states and 18 different countries. Twenty-two works by the following 20 artists from Alabama, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and England were selected for exhibition. The exhibit will include a surprising nine photographic works, along with a number of paintings, drawings, and mixed-media or collage works. Also worth noting is the large proportion of artists from Ohio and the greater Cincinnati area. About half the artists are new to Manifest, and half have been involved in previous books or exhibits over the past nine years. Presenting works by: Jonathan Aumen (Norfolk, Virginia) Colin Blakely (Ann Arbor, Michigan) Judith Brandon (Cleveland, Ohio) Sue Bryan (New York, New York) Katherine Cox (Willow Wood, Ohio) Meghan Duda (Fargo, North Dakota) Kent Krugh (Faireld, Ohio) Kevin Kunstadt (Brooklyn, New York) Bryce Laerty (Jacksonville, Alabama) Philip LaVelle (Cincinnati, Ohio) Marc Leone (Cincinnati, Ohio) Craig Lloyd (Cincinnati, Ohio) Tony McAteer (Bath, England) Billy Renkl (Clarksville, Tennessee) Chris Segre-Lewis (Wilmore, Kentucky) Alexander Solomon (Coos Bay, Oregon) David Stanger (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Kathleen Thum (Liberty, South Carolina) Samantha VanDeman (Villa Park, Illinois) Jenny Wiener (Tavares, Florida) |
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