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I’m pleased to announce that The New Explorers is now officially on sale (order here and here). This small yet expansive survey of twelve female artists highlights certain changes occurring both in the art world and in the culture at … Continue reading →

Amy Stein does not identify as a landscape photographer. For her, the genre of landscape photography is narrowly defined as images made in empty space that is majestic and sublime. Over the course of our conversation, we expanded the category … Continue reading →

In 2009, Christy Gast was flying from Tampa to Miami when she saw a giant body of water she knew nothing about. Her subsequent research led her to the Herbert Hoover Dike, which surrounds Lake Okeechobee. Once only ten feet … Continue reading →

The New Explorers was inspired by my quest as an artist. My interest in artistic representation of the American landscape began in the early 1980s. As a very young photographer I was drawn to the genre of landscape photography and … Continue reading →

Six months after my experience with Marie Lorenz’s Tide and Current Taxi, I interviewed her in her Bushwick, Brooklyn, studio. Thanks to her father and uncle, Lorenz spent much of her childhood in canoes and feels at home on the … Continue reading →

I was glancing through the New York Times one day in September 2010 when I found myself transfixed by a series of small black-and-white photographs titled Inaccessible New York. The photos featured rusty submarine parts, views of a desolate, windswept … Continue reading →

In 2011 I attended the Art + Environment Conference at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. I sat with the weight of the enormous exhibition catalog pressed against my knees and listened to an all-male panel of artists discussing … Continue reading →

                Historically, in American culture, the narrative of “the quest” is masculine; even in the present, it’s difficult to find heroic female explorers for inspiration or guidance. The few anomalies, whether historical figures … Continue reading →

In the spring of 1999, over a period of three months, dance artist Linda K. Johnson created a site-specific performance with the urban growth boundary (UGB) program in Portland, Oregon, as its subject. The UGB sets an outer limit on … Continue reading →