State Arts Council Announces “Fabricated Landscapes” Exhibit at Block Island Airport Gallery

State Arts Council Announces “Fabricated Landscapes” Exhibit at Block Island Airport Gallery

The Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA) will present works by artist Molly Kugler Dickinson during its new exhibit at the Block Island Airport Gallery.

The exhibit, titled “Fabricated Landscapes” will be on display January 6, 2020, through June 7, 2020.

The Exhibit

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Dickinson’s “Fabricated Landscapes” exhibition of recent work features plein-air oil paintings that are a direct response to the moment in the “premier coup” tradition.

The series, painted in Middletown, Maine, and Provincetown, feature landscapes where this intersection of nature and human activity is evident.

Examples: the Sachuest National Wildlife Refuge, whose sweeping vistas are the result of the land having been used for grazing, a military station, and a garbage dump prior to becoming a park; Pemaquid ME, where the pine forest is unnaturally uniform due to having been clear-cut then subsequently re-growing all at one time; and the Cape Cod National Seashore, whose sweeping, fascinating dunes and vistas are the result of early English settlers overgrazing the area, then planting it with African dune grass in an attempt to shore up the resulting erosion.

Little of these lands has escaped the imprint of human activity.

 

PHOTO: Work by Molly Kugler Dickinson/ RISCA