Landscapes Reimagined: Rachel Rose and Rick Silva Video Works on Loan From Art Bridges

Landscapes Reimagined: Rachel Rose and Rick Silva Video Works  On Loan from Art Bridges + Hockaday Collection Artwork

Preview Reception: Thursday, November 7, 2024 5-7 pm

Members: Free  General Public: $10

Exhibition Dates: November 8, 2024- September 20, 2025

Exhibition Description:

Landscapes Reimagined features two multi-media video installation works from internationally acclaimed artists Rachel Rose and Rick Silva on extended loan from the Art Bridges Foundation collection, as well as 15 works from the Hockaday Museum of Art’s permanent collection. All selected works feature contemporary interpretations and explorations of traditional landscape painting through new media, impressionistic styles, and abstracted line and form.

American artist Rachel Rose’s multi-media, room-size, immersive video installation, Lake Valley (2016), is an enchanting, visually rich animated storybook video, with themes and imagery from classic children’s literature, such as forest landscapes and woodland creatures. Rose creates a dreamlike story about central themes of childhood stories: imagination, loneliness, and longing for personal connection. Through dense collage and cell animation techniques, the artist combines illustrated layers of fantasy and imaginative detail for all ages.

Brazilian born artist Rick Silva’s immersive video installation, Western Fronts: Cascade Siskiyou, Gold Butte, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Bears Ears (2018),  explore themes of technology, ecology, and climate change. This contemporary video work reflects the political and ecological threats to four U.S. National Monuments,  combining aerial drone footage and photogrammetry (the process of capturing images and stitching them together to create a digital model) with 3D animation to create a dystopic nature documentary.

Accompanying the loaned video works, are selected 17 contemporary landscape works from the Hockaday Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Works range from Freeman Butts and Charles Davis, to King Kuka, Neil Parsons, and Theodore Waddell, all exploring modern reinterpretations of classic and traditional landscape painting through new media and techniques.