Prospect

Curated by Alex Priest and presented in the Downstairs Gallery

September 12 - October 4, 2014

Friday, September 12 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm

A group exhibition featuring Dana Damewood, Neil Griess, Erin Foley, Nicholas Jacobsen, Heather Johnson, Holly Kranker, and Rob Walters.

"Landscape is a way of seeing, a composition and structure of the world so that it may be appropriated by a detached, individual spectator to whom an illusion of order and control is offered through the composition of space according to the certainties of geometry".

-Denis Cosgrove: Prospect, Perspective and the Evolution of the Landscape Idea. 1985

The appropriation of space offers a perplexing comparison between a seemingly concrete reality of property/territory and the grey zones of personal perception. Prospect brings together seven artists to examine individual, communal, political and literal perspectives affected by critical distance.