Reimagining the Contemporary Landscape:
New Views and Interpretations
Opening: January 30 – March 15, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 7–9pm
As part of the Scottsdale Art Walk

Many of us have become accustomed to considering landscape painting as a pleasant means of making faithful replications of the physical environment. And certainly there have been many skilled artists in history and even today who can reproduce precisely the reality of the forms and vistas they see before them. But as landscape painting has evolved over the years, artists have increasingly felt a freedom to do more than replicate. Many, including the nine artists in LewAllen Galleries Scottsdale’s upcoming group show, have departed from conventional traditions to approach landscape painting in a more subjectively interpretive manner.

LewAllen Scottsdale’s show, entitled “Reimagining the Contemporary Landscape: New Views and Interpretations,” runs January 30 to March 15, 2014, with an opening reception from 7:00-9:00 pm on January 30th as part of the Scottsdale ArtWalk.

The exhibition demonstrates a range of more adventuresome approaches by contemporary artists seeking to respond in their work to the rhythms and geometry of the landscape. Driven by a desire to depict not only a visual image of a place, but the feeling that is elicited when one truly experiences a place, these artists employ styles ranging from hyper-realism to gestural abstraction to convey a deep sense of emotionality and presence in these contemporary renditions of the traditional landscape genre.

Works in the show are by noted artists Christopher Benson, Bernard Chaet, John Fincher, Woody Gwyn, and Forrest Moses, among others.