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February Issue 2003
Green Hill Center for NC Art in Greensboro, NC, Features Photography Exhibit
Selections from In Response to Place: Photographs from The Nature Conservancy's Last Great Places explores and celebrates the natural world with photographs of the Conservancy's Last Great Places, ecologically important areas from around the world. The exhibition, a collaboration between Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art and The North Carolina Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, will be on display at the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art in Greensboro, NC, through Feb. 28, 2003.
Exhibition curator Andy Grundberg invited twelve photographers of established reputation to select a place the Nature Conservancy helps protect and to record their response to that place on film. The exhibition's range of styles, from landscape photography to portraiture and photojournalism, illustrate the rich and complex splendor of these places, as well as the diversity of artists represented. Annie Liebowitz and William Wegman, famous for their portraiture, along with Sally Mann and Lee Friedlander, best known for their cutting edge work, joined their fellow artists in photographing sites ranging from the red rock plateaus of Utah, to the forests of New York, to the coral reefs of Indonesia. The results: images that express their passionate feelings about the natural world.
"By asking contemporary artists to visit and respond to what The Nature Conservancy calls the Last Great Places, I wanted to investigate new ways of thinking about how the camera could depict our relationships to the land, to beauty and to nature in general," says Grundberg. The resulting photographs suggest that the beauty of nature and the reality of human presence are not necessarily antithetical, and therein reflect the Conservancy's collaborative and participatory approach to conservation. Featured artists include: William Christenberry, Lynn Davis, Terry Evans, Lee Friedlander, Karen Halverson, Annie Liebowitz, Sally Mann, Mary Ellen Mark, Richard Misrach, Hope Sandrow, Fazel Sheikh and William Wegman.
In Response to Place is made possible by presenting sponsor, Merrill Lynch, and official sponsors, Cadillac, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, MBNA America, Millstone Coffee and 3M. Local program sponsors include Miller Brewing Company-Eden, the Julian Price Family Foundation, and Konica.
In conjunction with the Nature Conservancy
exhibition, Green Hill Center also presents the installation,
Landscape of Penland, by Miyuki Imai. Imai, an artist in
residence at Penland School, North Carolina's renowned craft school,
celebrates the structure and beauty of the plant world and the
four seasons. She uses found objects and artifacts from the natural
environment such as seedpods, leaves, and flowers to create her
delicately stitched fiber panels. Imai's installation is sponsored
in part by Japan Tech, Inc. Programs related to the exhibition
will be offered throughout the run of the exhibition.
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