Radical Landscapes

Amy Balkin et al., Amanda Eicher, Pablo Guardiola, Cybele Lyle, Robert Minervini, Trevor Paglen, Elizabeth Sims
The natural environment serves as medium and muse for the seven artists in Radical Landscapes who reflect on a range of larger concerns including climate change, surveillance, and identity. Taking romantic notions of landscape and the sublime as points of departure, this exhibition presents contemporary approaches to nature that reflect our rapidly evolving world. As boundaries between disciplines in visual culture become blurred, art that engages with the natural environment frequently connects to scientific, historical, and philosophical ideas. Through a range of media, the artists in this exhibition upend familiar, anodyne approaches to landscape and instead present work that critically examines our relationship to the natural world.
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Related Public Programs & Events:
February 6, 2016, 4-6 PM
Opening Reception (Free)
Featuring a wine and cheese reception.
Location: Gatehouse Gallery
April 2, 2016, 4-6 PM
Tasting Event with Amanda Eicher
($10 / $5 members)
Featuring a sensory tasting experience organized by artist Amanda Eicher to explore how climate change might impact the taste of food and wine.
Location: Gatehouse Gallery

: Radical Landscapes installation view. Photo: Wilfred J. Jones

: Installation view featuring work by Cybele Lyle (left) and Elizabeth Sims (right). Photo: Wilfred J. Jones

: Robert Minervini, Contemplating the Moon, 2015. Acrylic on canvas, 52 x 72 in. Courtesy of the artist.

: Robert Minervini, In the Dust of the Future, 2015. Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 60 in. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Wilfred J. Jones

: Elizabeth Sims, In the Ninth Year, When the Gaze Became the Wall (Daruma), 2014. Graphite on Paper, 48 x 30 in. Courtesy of the artist.

: Pablo Guardiola, A Note for the Future, 2011. C-print, 30 x 20 in. Courtesy of the artist and Romer Young Gallery.

: Cybele Lyle, Everything I’ve known I have forgotten (installation view), 2016. Mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Israel Valencia

: Amanda Eicher, Precursor (study), 2016. Courtesy of the artist.

: Amy Balkin et al., A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting (State: As of the Margarita Declaration on Climate Change, July 2014), 2012-ongoing. Mixed media, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.

: Installation view of Amy Balkin et al.’s A People’s Archive of Sinking and Melting (State: As of the Margarita Declaration on Climate Change, July 2014), 2012-ongoing. Wall graphic designed by Michael Lease, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Israel Valencia

: Trevor Paglen, Subsatellite Ferret-D Over the Eastern Sierra (Electronic Intelligence Satellite; USA 3), 2012. C-print, 40 x 53½ in. Courtesy of the artist and Altman Siegel Gallery, SF.

: Trevor Paglen, Circles (installation view), 2015. Video, 12 min. Courtesy of the artist and Altman Siegel Gallery, SF. Photo: Israel Valencia