An Unfamiliar Place: Modern Landscape in East Asian and Asian American Works on Paper

This exhibition brings together photographs and prints from the Loeb’s collection to consider how artists used the tools and techniques of photography and printmaking to abstract or defamiliarize the landscape. Legacies of experimentation in reproductive media cultivated in Japan, Korea, and China, which continue to be developed by contemporary artists living throughout Asia and in the United States, are showcased. This exhibition is presented in two complementary parts. Part 1 “Landscape, Form, Technique,” in the Hoy Gallery, features juxtapositions of prints and photographs that explore abstraction, color, and experimental methods of creating works on paper as strategies for re-envisioning humans’ relationship to the land. Part 2 “Reflective Landscapes,” in the Asian Gallery, focuses on abstracted landscapes and personal experiences artists have with their surroundings.

This exhibition is generously supported by Horace Goldsmith Exhibitions and the Hoene Hoy Photography Fund.