An Unfamiliar Place: Modern Landscape in East Asian and Asian American Works on Paper

January 11–March 30, 2025

An abstract painting with the upper half bluish and the lower half gray.
Mie Morimoto (Japanese, born 1974), Untitled, from “pH” series, 2013, Chromogenic print, Gift of Alison de Lima Greene, class of 1978, in honor of Susan Donahue Kuretsky, 2017.30

This exhibition brings together photographs and prints from the Loeb’s collection to consider how artists used the tools and techniques of photography and printmaking to abstract or defamiliarize the landscape. Legacies of experimentation in reproductive media cultivated in Japan, Korea, and China, which continue to be developed by contemporary artists living throughout Asia and in the United States, are showcased. This exhibition is presented in two complementary parts. Part 1 “Landscape, Form, Technique,” in the Hoy Gallery, features juxtapositions of prints and photographs that explore abstraction, color, and experimental methods of creating works on paper as strategies for reenvisioning humans’ relationship to the land. Part 2 “Reflective Landscapes,” in the Asian Gallery, focuses on abstracted landscapes and personal experiences artists have with their surroundings.

This exhibition is generously supported by Horace Goldsmith Exhibitions and the Hoene Hoy Photography Fund.

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