September 18 - October 25

Reception Sept. 18th 5-8pm

9.18.09-

10.25.09

Ellen Babcock, Steve Barry, Richard Beckman, sheri crider, Nina Dubois, Eloisa Guanlao, Jeanette Hart-Mann, Ryan Henel, Kenji Kondo, Jeff Krueger, Debbie Long, Mayumi Nishida & Matt Tuttle, Mary Tsiongas and Molly Wakeman.

In partnership with the 516 Arts & the Land/Art project of New Mexico, SCA Contemporary Art is pleased to present the second and final exhibition of this groundbreaking series.

SCULPTURE AS ANALOGY TO LANDSCAPE

Sculpture's relation to landscape has primarily been two fold: traditionally on the land, as figure on ground, or of the land as Site and Earth works. This group of sculptural works aspires to be as the land. Resisting the tactics of 70's artists who relied on displacement to bring the material/image of land inside, these artists seek the phenomenological common ground between constructed and natural environments. In these works the formal kinship of object to subject ranges from the mimetic to pure evocation, yet each offers on experiential opportunity to the viewer.

Focused on the terrain rather than the map, these works present the physical navigations necessary for the perception of sculptural objects asequal to the acts performed to located oneself in the world. Each work is an anchor, a unique spot where the traveler pauses to ponder his or her place in the territory. Moving on altered sound, shifting light, reformed composition are cues to being present in space and time. Establishing indexical equivalency of this sort flirts with simulation, but only if the intent is to confuse the truth. Here, these events are as real as the referent.

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