MOCA Delicious Feilds: Jordan Tate and Pipo Nguyen-duy
Oh Bloghart the Magnificent as I sit here lullingly typing on my plastic apple keys I am amazed at the wealth of photographic bounty ripe for the picking at the various local institutions. I know you say, blech, that cutting edge media critic conceptual stuff just reeks of hollow academia. If I wanted to be confused and angered I watch CSPAN. I’d first say don’t be so quick to judge something new and a little odd. If you were to go to MOCA tonight to see the opening of the new Summer season you’d be confronted with some very interesting and thoughtfully curated photographs in a show titled Delicious Fields:Ohio Photographers a Work. New looks at and uses of photography all with the Ohio landscape/environment as a broad underpinning. Here artists explore and manipulate the tradition of reacting to and documenting the land by using it as a jumping off point for image critique and social exploration of the role photograph plays today in representation. Also there is some land as stage in which things happen on or manipulated by the artist to create narratives or other possibilities. Among others, there are two artists I am super excited about, Pipo Nguyen-duy and Jordan Tate ( wasn’t that Dexter’s white whales name in season 4?). There is a lot of photographic boundary pushing going on and coming from someone who likes to explore and dissect standard photographic notions that makes my water run.
Well Bloghart if you are still not sold then go on over to an equally exciting yet more traditional leaning exhibition of landscape photographs culled from the Cleveland Museums permanent collection. Contemporary Landscape Photography is the fight of the century. It’s the photographic version of Aruthor Vs. Aspartemay! ( yes iCarly is awesome). Adams Vs. Adams. Robert and Ansel. Landscape as pristine wild and/or human impact on said land. Take sides one and all and take pictures. CMA has curated an exhibition that shows both sides of the story from when it began and how it is carried on today with current working artists. The show looks great.
Get out there Bloghart and stop sitting around and waiting for people to read you.
