DANA HARGROVE
2024-02-19Fresh off her two recent artist residences in Iceland and North Carolina, Enclosure will be Hargrove’s fifth exhibition with Bridgette Mayer Gallery. The title is derived from the 18th and 19th century Enclosure Movement in England, which forcibly privatized public and communal British land. The work in Enclosure explores our world’s changing landscape in the face of capitalism, industrialization, and environmental threats. Hargrove’s colorful and abstracted landscape paintings blur the distinction between natural and constructed environments, creating a portal to lead viewers from the built world to the untamed wilderness. As a Scottish American artist and frequent world traveler, Hargrove is well-attuned to the underlying narratives found in natural and industrialized landscapes globally and over time.
Opposite – Wild Acres, 2023
Exhibition runs through to March 23rd, 2024
Bridgette Mayer Gallery
709 Walnut Street, 1st Floor
Philadelphia
PA 19106
