Projects featured this week were selected from our most recent call-for-submissions. I was able to interview each of these individuals to gain further insight into the bodies of work they shared. Today, we are looking at the series Entropy by Yunqian Lin. Yunqian Lin is a visual artist from China, living and working in New York City, […]
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Nate Larson: History Based Landscapes
It is with great pleasure that I conclude this week of posts with the work of my good friend, Nate Larson. I first saw this project, titled Escape Routes, in 2014 when the two of us had a show at the Arlington Art Center, just outside of Washington DC. I was fascinated to learn that […]
Henning Rogge: History Based Landscapes
I must admit, I do not know a lot about Henning Rogge, nor do I know much about his work beyond what I can see in the images. But what I see I absolutely love, and so, I reached out to Henning, who is based in Hamburg and asked if I could include his work […]
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Searching for California’s Hang Trees, grew out of the research artist Ken Gonzales-Day was doing for his book Lynching in the West: 1850-1935, published by Duke University Press in 2006. In it, Gonzales-Day sets out to assemble the most complete record of lynching in California that had yet been published. What his research uncovered, was […]
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I’m sure for many Lenscratch readers, the work of Mark Ruwedel will need no introduction. It is a privilege to be able to include his project, Westward, Course of Empire, in this week’s series of posts dedicated to artists investigating history in the landscape. One thing all of the artists I am going to highlight […]
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I had the pleasure of reviewing the work of photographer Matthew Moore at Fotofest this past March. We had a lively conversation about his continuing examination of landscapes that hold history. This concept has always fascinated me and I appreciated his thoughtful and articulate approach to documenting markers of the past, and with his new […]