The Room - our landscape interior: Group exhibition
Opening event: Tuesday September 16th 6-8pm
"Modern art erupted with the landscape's inversion: the interior. Notably, modern artists began depicting windows into other rooms instead of painting views of the outside world. What was behind this desire to flip the visual narrative? The theories of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the examination of an "inner voice," the radical expansion of leisure time among the middle class, the atrocities of war and their resulting psychological damage, and more led modern artists, from the Symbolists to the Post-Impressionists, to paint visually and psychologically stimulating spaces.... Interior spaces, unpeopled, allow us to imagine our own physical bodies in the space as well as our emotional and intellectual responses to how we feel when looking at that space. Invited, welcomed, voyeuristic, apprehensive or hesitant to enter: these interiors perhaps reveal more about us, the viewer, than they do about the painter's intent".- In My Room: Artists Paint the Interior 1950-Now, The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia
The Room - our landscape interior is a group exhibition investigating the shared connection to and from the interior landscapes and our places within them. Whether real or imagined, showcasting our landscape interiors allows the viewer to step into the world of the artist’s making.
Featuring works by:
Giles Alexander
Atong Atem
Bobby Bowler
Archer Davies
Penelope Davies
Chantel de Latour
Kate Lewis
Dani McKenzie
Nick Mullaly
Jessica Murtagh
Jordan Richardson
Lily Walker
Shanti Shea An
