Altered Views: Experiencing the Contemporary Landscape

The Lexington Art League is seeking submissions for the exhibition Altered Views: Experiencing the Contemporary Landscape, an exhibit of 2D, 3D, 4D and installation exploring the 21st century landscape curated by Alice Pixley Young.

Landscape is a shifting concept. No longer romantic, sublime or grandiose, the 21st century "landscape" is viewed primarily through the media of our computer/phone screens where we move from blissed-out vistas to environmental traumas. Our interest in understanding nature and landscape is often constrained to the poles of beauty or terror, with everyday views overlooked. In landscape, the politics of looking and consuming views has expanded greatly in the 21st century with the echo of dying industrial technologies giving rise to the new. Wilderness has been cultivated, engineered, bounded and bordered. Yet, from the primal to political, haptic to hallowed, landscape is the void, the space, and the ever-thrumming vibration of life that moves us cosmically forward.

Exhibition Dates: May 25 - July 27, 2018. Opening Event: May 25, 6-9pm. Second Event: June 22, 6-9pm. Closing Event: July 27, 6-9pm. Entry fee: $20.00. Work sample requirements: 1-6 total samples (minimum 1 image, maximum 6 images; 0-6 audio files; 0-6 video files). Eligibility: National.