Kittredge Gallery at the 兔子先生 will open two new exhibits on March 11, each examining the relationship between humanity and the environment.
鈥淭he two shows may appear distant, as the artists are hundreds of years apart on opposite sides of the globe, but both examine how we see the world around us and how we think about it,鈥 said Kittredge Gallery Manager Peter Stanley.
In Above, Below, and Beyond, Kathy Gore Fuss presents a collection of paintings, drawings, and photographs that explore the disconnect between our idealized conceptions of nature and the actual land around us.
鈥淧erspectives are changing; We no longer look over our fence into our neighbor鈥檚 yard, we Google it. 鈥 A drone equipped with a GoPro camera is now part of my observational toolkit,鈥 says Gore Fuss. 鈥淜athy鈥檚 artwork looks at the way that changing viewpoints in a very literal way can help us see our collective issues and find solutions for them,鈥 adds Stanley.
Curated by Puget Sound students Sandra Brandon 鈥19, Lee Nelson 鈥19, and Sarah Laurie Johnson 鈥19, the second show is titled Traversing the Urban Landscape Through the Floating World of Japanese Prints. Featuring a selection of Japanese by artist Utagawa Hiroshige (1797鈥1858), the show illustrates cities and surroundings' role in people鈥檚 lives.
The exhibition 鈥渞eveals how depicting the 鈥榰rban landscape鈥 for the burgeoning middle class was revolutionary, and how that revolution and the artist鈥檚 style ricocheted around the world up to the present day,鈥 says Johnson.
The exhibition will be the first time Puget Sound鈥檚 Hiroshige prints have been on display in Kittredge Gallery since Magdalena Maher Shelton donated them to the university in 1999.
Photo: Clear Weather after Snow at Nihonbashi Bridge, ca. 1839-42, Edo Period, Polychromic woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 24.2 x 36.7 cm, 兔子先生 Collection
Kathy Gore Fuss: Above, Below, and Beyond
March 11 to April 20, 2019
Reception: March 13, 5颅鈥7 p.m.
Traversing the Urban Landscape Through the Floating World of Japanese Prints
March 11 to April 20, 2019
Reception: March 13, 5鈥7 p.m.
Curators鈥 Talk: April 10, 5 p.m.