Landscape Confection

View this exhibit at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, California: Landscape Confection Newport Beach feb 5 - may 7, 2006 The visually enticing Landscape Confection extends the boundaries of landscape painting with whimsical works employing stitched fabric, beads, wax, metal, silk flowers, and other materials. The exhibition presents 50 works by 13 emerging and mid-career artists from around the globe, all-working in the genre of landscape art in surprising ways. Embracing the idea of the decorative, their influences range from naturalist illustrations to impressionism to wallpaper patterns. Some of the works in Landscape Confection are derived from topography, others from the realm of fantasy and dreamscape, and most straddle the line between traditional landscape art and abstraction. The artists included in Landscape Confection are Rowena Dring, Pia Fries, Jason Gubbiotti, Jim Hodges, David Korty, Kori Newkirk, Katie Pratt, Michael Raedecker, Neal Rock, Lisa Sanditz, Ranjani Shettar, Amy Sillman, and Janaina Tschape. Funding Credits Landscape Confection was organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University. Major support is provided by Univar USA, The Scotts Company, and Nancy and David Gill. Additional support is provided by Glavan Fehér Architects, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Corporate Annual Fund of the Wexner Center Foundation. The Orange County Museum of Art presentation is curated by Elizabeth Armstrong, Deputy Director for Programs and Chief Curator. http://www.ocma.net/index.html?page=upcoming#Landscape_Confection www.ocma.net