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Comer Collection - Composed Perception: Landscape as Aesthetic Process
Friday, April 22, 2022
Free Event
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Composed Perception: Landscape as Aesthetic Process - Selections from the Comer Collection
Curator: Amanda Dunbar, PhD graduate student
Reception: Friday, April 1, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. at the SP/N Gallery
This exhibit of contemporary landscape photography derived from the Comer Collection aims to explore the relationship of the human being to the earth, while also examining how the landscapes inhabited are socially, culturally and aesthetically composed.
View the Curator presentation video
At the very heart of the concept of “landscape” lies a duality: it describes both a vehicle for visual expression, and ostensibly, a natural entity, though one that carefully mediated by the human being. In cultivating any especially "aesthetic view", a landscape describes an environment that has been aesthetically processed. The artist (and subsequently the beholder) takes part in shaping and interpreting; the habit or impulse for representing a particular area of a natural environment as “landscape”—or constructing it mentally when we are presented with a particularity arresting set of natural phenomenon—speaks to a specific visual tradition within the Western artistic canon, and a particular relationship with our physical environment. Indeed, “landscape” asks the viewer to consider where or if they belong, and as such, raises issues of identity and orientation that become in-separable from the reading of—and pleasure from—images of environment.
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Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Thursdays and Fridays: 1 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Closed Sundays and Mondays
Location
SP/N Gallery
3020 Stewart Dr, Richardson, TX 75080
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Free
Department
- Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology
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- Arts and Performance Office
- 972-UTD-ARTS
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