Reading The Earth, curated by Deborah Davidson
June 7 – July 28, 2023

 

Participating artists:
Willhelm Neusser
Stephanie Anderson
Joerg Dressler
Nicole Duennebier
Steve Imrich

Suffolk University Gallery – Sawyer Building 6th Floor
8 Ashburton Place, Boston, MA 02108
Closed on university holidays & weekends

Thursday, July 15th
Gallery Talk with the Shana Dumont Garr at 5:30pm
Continuing with artists in the exhibit at 6:00pm
Reception to follow

Landscapes are culture before they are nature: constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. So goes the argument of this book. But it should be acknowledged that once a certain idea of landscape is a myth, a vision establishes itself in an actual place, it has a peculiar way of muddling categories, of making metaphors more real than their referents; of becoming, in fact, part of the scenery. Simon Schama, Landscape And Memory, pg 61

Reading is a way of seeing, of knowing. Reading the earth, the landscape, the place can be expressed in many ways. These can be imagined places, real places, envisioned ones. The environment, the landscape can be seen as restorative or threatening. What does a place hold? The image/picture, the memory of a place, the actual materials from a place.