NEW ENGLAND SURVEY

Photographic Resource Center
Curated by Leslie K. Brown
March 28 to May 11, 2008
Opening reception, Thursday, March 27
5:30 to 7:30pm

Barbara Bosworth
Untitled 2004/ 2008
From series Meadow, Carlisle, Massachusetts




Paul Taylor
Untitled Connecticut River Landscape #18 2000

This exhibition surveys contemporary work from, of, and about the New England landscape, featuring one artist from (or project based in) each of the 6 New England states: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont. Notably, this exhibition is not a complete study of New England landscape photography, but more of a cerebral survey. It serves as an occasion and a location in which we can meditate upon the grander, ineffable “sense of place” unique to this area. Perhaps what is “New England” about our land, culture, or mind cannot ultimately be defined, yet it seems universally understood. Many of the series highlighted often begin with and focus on a very specific locale within our regional landscape. The artists play off the idea of “surveying” in their modus operandi—crawling through bracken, wading through water, or meandering through fields—as well as 19th century landscape surveys. While several of the artists evoke a sense of nostalgia in their subject or aesthetic approach, the landscapes and artworks show signs of our times and are both timeless and startlingly new.
-Leslie K. Brown (excerpts from PRC's New England Survey website)

Artists featured:
Barbara Bosworth
Tanja Alexia Hollander
Janet L. Pritchard
Thad Russell
Jonathan Sharlin
Paul Taylor