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Editor: Brenda Bonneville   
Thursday, 20 November 2008

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The show runs November 19 through December 21, 2008 at the Maine College of Art Campus on Congress Street in Portland.

Out There: The Mediated Landscape. Works by Christina Bechstein, Gail Spaien, Phillip Brou and George LaRou.

The notion of Landscape can refer to a variety of terrains: an expansive view of scenery, a genre of painting, an emotional plane, or a social context. The artists in this year’s MECA faculty exhibition draw attention to unique landscapes and renegotiate them to bring change. Christina Bechstein defines the landscape as a community and collaborates with the public to mend worn fishing nets. Phillip Brou defines the landscape through the lens of pop culture, drawing from icons like The Wizard of OZ and Stephen Spielberg to contextualize important scenes from his private emotional realm. Gail Spaien creates a hermetic archive of natural samples and George LaRou uses software to design fantastical virtual realities. Out There: The Mediated Landscape traverses landscapes that are public, introspective, invented, and historically re-imagined to tell the story of four individuals making meaning in a changing world.

Out There: The Mediated Landscape represents a new vision for The Maine College of Art’s faculty exhibitions. While in the past, faculty exhibitions have taken form as large salon style shows featuring 20-30 faculty members, the new format will include three to six faculty in juried thematic exhibitions. This new format will allow artists to display larger more focused bodies of work in a thoughtfully curated context. This year’s exhibition was juried by Bowdoin College Museum of Art Curator, Alison Ferris, and Architect Carol Wilson.

For more information, visit the Maine College of Art website.

 


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