Curt Lund is a freelance curator of visual arts and design exhibitions for venues across the Midwest.
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Geographies | Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts Fridley MN | March 12 - April 30, 2011
The "sense of place" is a topic that has engaged the imaginations of many, from academics like influential geography theorist Yi-Fu Tuan to essayists and authors like noted art critic Lucy Lippard. It has been explored by artists throughout the course of art history; the landscape is, after all, one of the oldest and most revered canonical models. In Geographies, we fuel the continued evolution of this genre through the perspectives of five print, paper, book and installation artists, revealing the power of what Lippard refers to as “narrative landscapes”. These artists move the exploration of place away from romantic interpretations, toward more sophisticated references to natural and manmade features, critical examinations of the creation, revision and destruction of borders and nations, and reinterpretation of cartographic, topographic and even astronomical bodies. The artists explore the physical markers of “place” that contribute to how we think of, experience and function within the world we share, and make visible the hidden geography of everyday life.