{"id":127922,"date":"2021-11-03T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevisualist.org\/?p=127922"},"modified":"2021-10-25T06:23:40","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:23:40","slug":"__trashed-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/2021\/11\/__trashed-97\/","title":{"rendered":"Lay Of The Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAY OF THE LAND<br \/>\nNovember 3 \u2013 December 8, 2021<br \/>\nReception: Wednesday, November 3, 4 &#8211; 7pm<br \/>\nGallery talk at 4:30pm<\/p>\n<p>Participating Artists:<br \/>\nJaclyn Mednicov<br \/>\nJudith Mullen<br \/>\nSoumya Netrabile<br \/>\nNina Rizzo<br \/>\nJon Seals<br \/>\nAlexander Richard Wilson<\/p>\n<p>Curated by Karen Azarnia, Director, O\u2019Connor Art Gallery<\/p>\n<p>Location:<br \/>\nDominican University<br \/>\nFourth Floor, Lewis Hall<br \/>\n7900 Division St. River Forest, IL 60305<\/p>\n<p>The natural world has long held our fascination. From the earliest cave paintings, to Caspar David Friedrich\u2019s iconic Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog, art history holds a long tradition of artists responding to the landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Nature as subject maintains its relevance in contemporary culture. With the current climate crisis, and as society continues to navigate complex socio-political issues, our relationship to the land we inhabit has become increasingly called into question. In Lay of the Land, each artist locates their relationship to nature through varying degrees of nuanced inquiry, inquisitive looking, and emotive expression.<\/p>\n<p>Artists Judith Mullen and Jaclyn Mednicov source materials inspired by nature in the production of their work. Sculptural works by Mullen incorporate yarn and plaster to mimic objects she finds on walks through the woods \u2013 such as tree bark \u2013 combined with other man-made materials including wire armature and glass beads. Her work speaks to ideas of the woods as a place of shelter, healing, and psychic and spiritual renewal.<\/p>\n<p>Mednicov\u2019s practice encompasses drawing, painting, ceramics, collage, sculpture and combinations thereof. Her recent skin paintings record fragments of natural objects from the environment, such as flowers and weeds, as a metaphor for freezing time. They also confront notions of loss, suggested through the process of their making.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar vein, artist Jon Seal creates mixed media works and photography based on soil, water, and plant life. Specimens are sourced directly from bodies of water and land undergoing drastic environmental changes. Recently, he has collaborated with other artists and scientists to understand the alarming environmental shifts that are affecting the Kankakee River in Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Soumya Netrabile, Nina Rizzo, and Alexander Richard Wilson expand on the art historical genre of landscape painting, albeit their work speaks clearly to our present moment. Netrabile\u2019s sumptuous paintings document her deep relationship with nature. Based on personal experience and memory, they exude vibrance and energy through rich hues and layered surfaces. Through her eyes we are but a small part of the natural world, her paintings serving as a vehicle for discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Nina Rizzo\u2019s intimate plein air watercolor sketches, rendered from direct observation, inform her larger oil compositions. Her paintings, with intense and exaggerated hues, explore the gap between perception and invention. Hovering between fact and fiction, it is worldmaking harnessed to evoke wonder and question our notion of reality.<\/p>\n<p>Having recently moved to Denver, Colorado, Alexander Richard Wilson\u2019s acrylic paintings on Yupo suggest lushness and fertility. As a queer African American artist, he finds kinship with the western landscape \u201cboth as a person of color, and also as an artifact of racial and social inequity.\u201d With fluid, sensuous marks, tension is rendered between the beauty of the paintings and the social unrest in this country at the time of their making, rendering the creation of the works a radical act.<\/p>\n<p>Image: Nina Rizzo, Sunset Drive, 2021, Oil on Canvas, 35\u201d x 30\u201d Photo credit: Tom Van Eynde<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT<br \/>\nThe mission of the O\u2019Connor Art Gallery is to present the Dominican University academic community with timely, relevant and focused contemporary art exhibitions that foster critical and thoughtful dialogue across disciplines. Located in Lewis Hall, steps from many of the art department\u2019s studios and classrooms, the gallery is particularly accessible to art students as a space for intimate engagement and reflection.<\/p>\n<p>Gallery Hours: Monday \u2013 Friday, 10 \u2013 6, Saturday, 11 \u2013 4<br \/>\nFree and open to all. Masks Required for all visitors on the DU campus and in the gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAY OF THE LAND November 3 \u2013 December 8, 2021 Reception: Wednesday, November 3, 4 &#8211; 7pm Gallery talk at 4:30pm Participating Artists: Jaclyn Mednicov Judith Mullen Soumya Netrabile Nina Rizzo Jon Seals Alexander Richard Wilson Curated by Karen Azarnia, Director, O\u2019Connor Art Gallery Location: Dominican University Fourth Floor, Lewis Hall 7900 Division St. River<a href=\"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/2021\/11\/__trashed-97\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":127923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5],"tags":[164055,4125,113612,233551,82244,233693,153418,134,135,233694,225609],"class_list":["post-127922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibition","category-reception","tag-alexander-richard-wilson","tag-dominican-university","tag-jaclyn-mednicov","tag-jon-seals","tag-judith-mullen","tag-lay-of-the-land","tag-nina-rizzo","tag-oconnor-art-gallery","tag-river-forest","tag-river-forrest","tag-soumya-netrabile","cat-39-id","cat-5-id"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/SunsetDr.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128145,"href":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127922\/revisions\/128145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevisualist.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}