OPENING RECEPTION

Friday, November 4, 2022

6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Fog is a perceptual threshold between the expected and the unknown; it vanishes horizons, confounds orientation, and alters destinations. Standing at this threshold, we are haunted. Nature is not what we remember or what we wish it to be.

Frank James Meuschke's new work taps the deep well of American landscape with large scale, painterly and apparition-like photographs. His process of photographing through various types of polyethylene sheeting to dislocate sites of ecological or personal significance points to current environmental predicaments and our responsibility for them. The resulting, blurred imagery dissolves the symbolic power of idealized nature into a disorienting landscape of strange beauty.