Unfixed Terrain

The environment on which we tread is a truly impressive and awe-inspiring sight. It is no wonder that artists for millennia have been trying to capture faithful depictions of the varied places humans call home or wish they could. However, the artists in Unfixed Terrain take a different approach and feature the nuances and extremes in colors, textures, materials, and settings in representing aspects of our world.

 

This exhibition brings together seven global contemporary artists whose varied approaches to abstracted landscapes reveal the genre's remarkable capacity for reinvention. These artists transform the landscape into a site of experimentation, where glass beads become paint, intricate marks of pastel and acrylic become elemental movement, and a horizon is a chaos of textured pastel marks. In each set of works, the images become vehicles for exploring memory, place, and perception. The exhibition journeys from meditative composition to exuberant gesture to profound material intensity, demonstrating how landscape can serve as both a visual anchor and a point of departure for formal and conceptual exploration.