Landscapes
Small Gallery | August 24 – October 11, 2020
Landscapes, is a simple title for the broad interpretation of a long artistic tradition of sylvan and bucolic country vistas This exhibition has been curated by Nathan Larson, Assistant Curator from the Permanent Art Collection at UA Little Rock.
For visitors, this is an opportunity to examine both the subject matter and how that subject matter was created. None of the photographs were manipulated using digital software so you can’t consider the “direct application of media”, but how the photographer chose to capture or represent color, light, shadow, and texture can be directly compared to how a painter, drawer, or printmaker chose to use their media in the creation of color, light, shadow, and texture.
Certain artworks can have an abstracted look through an artist’s use of light and shadow. Whether it was the artist’s intent or not, representational artworks can become abstract in the presentation of line, form, and shape when you catch an image from the corner of your eye or look at an image while slightly squinting your eyes.
Visual depth, distance, and space can be compared – which was actually the arrangement decision for this exhibition. With such a disparate group of images, how space was represented become an obvious organizational solution and fun exercise in itself.
Gallery
Susan Goethel Campbell
(American, b. 1956)
Aerial: Other Cities #1
relief print
Gallery Special Fund Purchase
UA Little Rock Permanent Art Collection 2013.011
William Lamar
Flat Black Chair, Sydney, #2
black and white photography
Gift of Shannon Dillard Mitchell
UA Little Rock Permanent Art Collection 2000.033
Joe Phillips
Bank of the Arkansas
black and white photograph
1990 Chancellor’s Portfolio
UA Little Rock Permanent Art Collection 1992.014.C.2
Howard S. Stern
(American, 1910 – 2002)
O’Keefe’s Mountain
etching
Gift of Nathan K. Stern & Ellen C. Stern
UA Little Rock Permanent Art Collection 2003.007.12
Tim Hursley
(American, b. 1955)
Warhol Factory, Madison Entrance (#12)
Chromogenic print
Gift of the Artist
UA Little Rock Permanent Art Collection 1993.061
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(Italian, 1720-1778)
The Tomb of Nero
(Capriccio grottesco [347], from Grotteschi)
etching
Thompson-Cromwell Portfolio
UA Little Rock Permanent Art Collection 2011.023.28
Louis Freund
(American, 1905 – 1999)
Yucatan, Tulum (Mayan ruins from the sea)
(ca. 1957)
mixed media drawing on paper
Gift of Anna and Jerry Bedford
UA Little Rock Permanent Art Collection 2010.022
Gwyn Kudabeck
(American, 1998 – )
Highway 365
Digital Photograph
2019 Annual Student Competitive
Friends of the Arts Purchase Award
Permanent Art Collection 2019.004
Louis Freund
(American, 1905 – 1999)
Mayan ruins, view from a village (ca. 1957)
mixed media drawing on paper
Gift of Anna and Jerry Bedford UA Little Rock Permanent Art Collection 2010.023
Maurice D. Kellogg
(American, 1916 – 1984)
The Bridge
oil on canvas
Gift of Mrs. Louise C. Kellogg
UA Little Rock Permanent Art Collection 1985.037
Howard S. Stern
(American, 1910 – 2002)
Woods and Cardinal Flowers
watercolor on paper
Gift of Nathan K. Stern & Ellen C. Stern
UA Little Rock Permanent Art Collection 2003.007.01
Howard S. Stern
(American, 1910 – 2002)
Washington Street
watercolor on paper
Gift of Nathan K. Stern & Ellen C. Stern
UA Little Rock Permanent Art Collection 2003.007.06
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(Italian, 1720-1778)
Imaginary Reconstruction of the Entrance to Ancient Roman Baths
(Appartenenze d’antiche terme [340b], from Opere Varie I)
etching
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
(Italian, 1720-1778)
Entrance to an Ancient Gymnasium
(Ingresso d’un antico ginnasio [340c], from Opere Varie II)
etching