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July 1, 2010
The Jen Bekman Gallery's current Land Use Survey group exhibition features photographs, paintings and works on paper in a critical appraisal of land use across the United States. The press release says that the:
The show opens with a series of landscapes that remain untouched by man. Slowly, signs of human intrusion begin to appear: car tracks, empty bottles, a retaining wall and piles of dirt. As one progresses through the exhibition, both in the gallery space and within the areas described by the works, increasingly more land turns over to commercial and residential development, before finally giving way to the dizzying geometries of the modern metropolis.
This kind of thematic work is not generally shown in Australia, even though the issues raised by the work are similar.
Beth Dow, Gravel, platinum palladium print, from Fieldwork series
This photographer of the land is concerned with ordinary spaces and "sculptured objects" in the Fieldwork series. We have a small heap of work site gravel or piles of wood or mulch that signify the human use, and transformation of, the land.
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There is an interview at Huffington Post with Sarah McKenzie who was in the Land Use Survey at the Jen Berkman Gallery in New York.