LAND/ART, summer/fall, 2009, Richard Levy Gallery, New Mexico, USA

LAND/ART, summer/fall, 2009, Richard Levy Gallery, New Mexico, USA
Deadline: October 1, 2008

Event: LAND/ART, summer/fall, 2009
Location: New Mexico, USA, Richard Levy Gallery
Deadline: October 1, 2008

Richard Levy Gallery is currently accepting proposals for innovative projects that relate to land art or earth art for LAND/ART which extends from summer 2009 through the late fall. This opportunity could include either/both a gallery exhibition or a remote outdoor exhibition at one of the many designated public sites for this event.

Please submit complete proposals along with budgetary needs by October 1, 2008 to be considered for either a solo or group exhibition.

Vision:
In the summer and fall of 2009 many of New Mexico arts organizations will join together to present LAND/ART, which will explore relationships of land, art, and community through exhibitions, site-specific art works, lectures, and a culminating book.

Focusing on “environmental” or “land” art, the collaboration seeks to address our changing relationship to nature, and to offer a new or previously unconsidered understanding of the place in which we live. Historically, New Mexico has been a place where the intersection of nature and culture is at issue.

In the 1960s and ‘70s, the American Southwest was the location of the first generation of Land Art or Earthworks, including such major projects as Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field and Charles Ross’ Star Axis in New Mexico, Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels in Utah, and James Turrell’s Roden Crater in Arizona. Since then, the Land Art genre has been subsumed under the more general term “environmental art” which is a highly diverse and vital feature of contemporary art around the world.

This new genre recognizes that what we now think of as the “environment” has broadened to include the global community, the microscopic world, and cyber space as well as wilderness, the urban environment and suburban sprawl. It includes ecological activism, reclamation and remediation projects, and ephemeral site-specific performances, among many other approaches, all of which have in common art and artists that respond to features of our natural environment.

Please submit images, project description, and artist materials to info@levygallery.com by Wednesday, October 1, 2008. Further gallery information can be found on our website at www.levygallery.com

Richard Levy Gallery
514 Central Ave SW
Albuquerque, NM 87102
505. 766. 9888 (p)
505. 242. 4279 (f)