Ilanit Illouz Work from The Memory of Landscape. “For me, Ilanit Illouz is not an artist but an archaeologist. Like an intrepid excavator, she travels through the landscape, walking the desert in search of what is hidden, undiscovered. In a certain way, her research-driven approach is no different from that of an archaeologist—demonstrating an equal […]

Bryan Schutmaat Work from Islands of the Blest. “I’ll come back to you in the hour of basalt and copper, back like floodwater pressing its shoulder against the ribs of the valley. When I rub bear fat into my boots a star disappears and the bones in my hand become a set of gears bringing […]

Dione Lee Work from Trap and Lean-to at Lightwork. “Oakland, California-based artist Dionne Lee employs video, collage, photography, and sculpture to explore American landscape and her place within its complex history. As an African American woman, she sees the natural world as both a place of refuge and tranquility, but also the location of racial […]

Awoiska van der Molen Work from The Living Mountain. “…Awoiska van der Molen’s audiovisual installation The Living Mountain (2022) shows the grand landscapes of the Südtirol Alps in Austria, the homeland of Thomas Larcher, composer of the accompanying music. In this compelling work, Van der Molen’s atmospheric black-and-white photography and the experimental score merge as […]

Mark Ruwedel Work from Westward. “Ruwedel is an artist who has been photographing American deserts and other remote locations for over 25 years, pursuing epic-scaled projects on railroad construction, Pre-Columbian sites, the landscapes of nuclear weapons, and more recently, failed attempts to live in the harsh environment of the desert. With an affinity for stark, […]

Ugo Rondinone Work from his oeuvre. “Ranging from installations and sculptures to psychedelic paintings and large-scale drawings, Ugo Rondinone’s eclectic practice explores the relationships between opposing forces—day and night, real and artificial, euphoria and depression. His most recognizable works are his colorful “Rocks” sculptures: vertically stacked rocks painted in fluorescent colors. Inspired by naturally occurring […]

Torkwase Dyson Work from A Liquid Place. “Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure and architecture. Dyson’s abstract works are visual and material systems used to construct fusions of surface tension, movement, scale, real and finite space. With an emphasis on the ways black […]

John Pfahl Work from Altered Landscapes. “In his series Altered Landscapes, Pfahl physically changes the environment, fabricating the view to question our perception of the landscape through added elements that reference mark-making devices associated with photographs, maps, plans, and diagrams. These gestures sometimes repeat strong formal components; fill in information suggested by the scene, or […]

Ron Jude Work from 12HZ. “The title of this work references the limits of human perception—12 Hz is the lowest sound threshold of human hearing. It suggests imperceptible forces, from plate tectonics to the ocean tides, from cycles of growth and decay in the forest, to the incomprehensibility of geological spans of time. The photographs […]

Victoria Sambunaris Work from her oeuvre. “For over 25 years, Victoria Sambunaris has structured her life around a photographic journey traversing the American landscape. Equipped with a 5×7 inch field camera, film, a video camera and research material, she crosses the country alone by car for several months per year. Her large-scale photographs document the […]