Lewis and Clark, a painting by Robert Green, Professor of Art, is appearing in Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art at the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, New York. Sarah Tanguy, independent curator and critic, and Curator with the Art in Embassies Program, Washington, D.C, selected works for the exhibition. It features the work of 38 artists, notably Vernon Fisher, Joyce Kozloff, and Paula Scher. An illustrated catalogue is being produced to accompany the exhibition, which opens October 3 and runs through January 9, 2011.
Sarah Tanguy describes Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art as “a look at current map-based art works that originate or draw on actual locations. Encompassing the stars, the land, and the built environment, the exhibition will bring to life exciting strategies that artists have used to chart or track their subjects, distilling them into art objects and activities that choreograph location through time and space.”
In reference to Lewis and Clark, she wrote, “Robert Green recreates map images made by Native Americans and French and American explorers and geographers—overlapping them, reversing east-west orientation, and re-formatting cartographic symbols, while keeping traditional scale measurements. The writhing abstraction suggests a temporal-spatial continuum that pre- and post-dates the expedition. By repeating the route of the journey, he further extends the sense of scope and de-familiarization.”
More information about the exhibition can be obtained by visiting www.katonahmuseum.org/