upcoming 'Scapes & Scope' exhibition aims to highlight a diversity of perspectives

​From the modernistic, surreal and evocative desert-scapes of Georgia Totto O’Keeffe, to the traditional, grand, and expansive scapes of Albert Bierstadt, historically the artistic interpretation of the land, sea, and urban space has been quite diverse.
 
‘Scapes and Scope’ aims to highlight this diversity by exhibiting modern and traditional pieces that both contrast and collaborate. We hope this broad array of contemporary work, pushes and stretches the boundaries of what the ‘scape’ truly is.

Georgia O'Keefe - Near Taos - 1929

​ABSTRACT APPROACH
Artist Paul Klee began his foray into the scape by first experimenting with bold and pastel color. His approach was quite liberated and akin to that of a musical composition. ‘Joyful Mountain Landscape’ most certainly imbues these attributes. An abstract painting is immediately recognized yet upon further inspection, a scape comes forth in his angular shapes and wondrous play of tones.

Albert Bierstadt - Buffalo Hunt - 1860

Paul Klee - Joyful Mountain Landscape - 1929

Georgia O’Keeffe - Red and Orange Streak - 1919

Albert Bierstadt - Seal Rock - 1872

REPRESENTING THE SCAPE
The beauty of the land, sea, and urbanscape in art, lies in the verity of its expression and the viewer's absorption of it. One can most certainly see and feel the experience of O’Keeffe’s environment in her paintings. Much of her imaginative work is representative of a place or space but her dauntless nature sought to reach beyond and take the viewer into her internal vision.
Bierstadt also endeavored to represent the scape as he saw it, full of light and romanticism. His catalogue of the western American scape proclaimed the beauty and grandeur of the land and sea in great detail and depth. His inspired paintings touched on the ephemeral and the ‘true to life.'

THE URBANSCAPE
​I have always enjoyed analyzing the night as a painter. The contrast of atmospheric density to synthetic lighting has allowed me to examine color and composition in a different way. There is quite an intimate and poetic aspect to the nocturne within the urban space as well. ‘Spark’ is an aerial piece that leaves much to the imagination. Loose areas of dark blues and greens can be seen melding and guiding the eye into lighter stretches and flickers of bright. There is much to be admired and traversed in the work of a great many contemporary painters within the urbanscape.

E.E. Jacks - Sparks, Aerial Nocturne - 2021

​We look forward to showcasing the artistic exploration and varied expressions of the ‘scape’ in Scapes and Scope!
 
E.E. Jacks - Juror

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​"One eye sees, the other feels.” - Paul Klee