Link to Post:
http://maryaddisonhackett.blogspot.com/2012/11/road-trip-indy-art-scene.html
Mary Addision Hackett blogs about several painting exhibitions currently on view in Indianapolis including: Kyle Ragsdale: Tableaux at the Harrison Art Center (through November 30), Elise Schweitzer: Centaurs and Belly Dancers at Gallery 924 (through November 30), Rachel Ritchford: Future Days at Mt. Comfort Gallery and Carla Knopp's exhibition Kinkade Meets Turner Paints Sci-fi With Fanbrush at Dewclaw. Hackett also visited the studio of Casey Roberts.
Submitted by Brett Baker on October 18, 2012
The landscape has inspired painters from Courbet, Monet, and Cézanne to Jackson Pollock and Joan Mitchell, the immensity of nature acting as a catalyst for each of their highly individual visions.
Tenses of Landscape, on view at the University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center Gallery through November 4, 2012, takes a look at the influence of landscape in the work of nineteen contemporary painters: Ricky Allman, Julie Cifuentes, Mike East, Emily Gherard, Grant Hottle, Michael Kareken, Tim Kennedy, Carla Knopp, Michael Krueger, Mark Lewis, Kristin Musgnug, Joseph Noderer, Margaret Noel, Casey Roberts, Claire Sherman, Kimberly Trowbridge, Shane Walsh, Megan Williamson, and Jenn Wilson.
In the exhibition introduction, Sam King writes that the show “presents both broad and dynamic depictions of landscape revealed as motif. Moreover, each artist examines the terrain dictated by these approaches and in turn addresses the act of painting itself.”
In addition to publishing statements by the artists each Monday on their blog MW Capacity, exhibition co-curators Sam King and Christopher Lowrance agreed to share their thoughts on putting together the show with Painters’ Table.
