The Landscape Tale, update

Here's an image of the exhibition announcement, 4" x 9" each side.

Collins Pub

526 Second Ave

Seattle WA 98104

09.01.2024-10.31.2024

11:30-close everyday

Reception 09.05.2024 5-7 First Thursday Pioneer Square

Meet the artist 10.12.2024 1:00-2:30pm

The exhibition includes the original 1993 installation exhibited at 911 media arts, Seattle, newly revised with exquisite giclée reproductions on prepared canvas, and Visions and Revisions of Mt Rainier at Seafirst Gallery installation in 1998.

I'll have some commercial reproductions of postcard landscape sketches such as these below

Here's a label statement for the Landscape Tale (1993)

The Landscape Tale––A statement (1993)
I believe that the European and European American landscape tradition effectively distances the viewer (who is characteristically middle and upper class) from the outdoors and other people. Virgil’s evocation of country life in The Georgics is the product of both rising imperialism and an urban society. The allure of “simple country life” and its cult of authenticity draws present-day middle class Americans to wilderness preservation as much as to suburbia. We can reclaim our cities and make them livable first by acknowledging our rage, our desire to escape the banality and oppression of our lives.
One way we can change our relationship to the land is to alter mediation forms and structures which separate us. In the US, especially on the west coast, our interest in suburban development has resulted in the destruction of many existing land uses, especially agricultural. We need to sustain and develop agricultural lands to make local sources the bulk of our food supply. While we work politically to create alternative development, we can sow visionary seeds for future harvests.
I hope that by using seemingly familiar images (the landscapes), I can attract the viewer’s eye and invite attention to our conflicts with land use. By providing resources for viewers, I want to support efforts at dynamic urban solutions to the perceived agricultural crisis.

Here's a statement for Views and Reviews

Views and Reviews: A Wilderness Tale (1998) from Enclosure: An Achemical Treatise
revisited 2014
This mixed media installation consists of a map of Seattle on transparency c. 1884, texts mounted individually and hung separately (In the Seafirst show “The View from Here”, curated by Peggy Weiss, hung more 5 x 5 feet). Below the transparency is a framed commercially prepared poster of a photograph, “Sea of Clouds,” by Harald Sund, the note to the piece included his name and item about its being the most popular image sold in retail souvenir shops of Mt. Rainier at the time. It was exhibited 1998-9 at Seafirst Gallery in Seattle, and the exhibition, produced by Seafirst in cooperation with the Mount Rainier, North Cascades and Olympic Fund to celebrate the Centennial of Mount Rainier National Park. Yakima Valley Museum, Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner Washington and at Citizens Cultural Center in Fujimomiya, Mt. Fuji, Japan.