Press Release

July 25, 2006
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New Horizons On View at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum

Winter Park, FL – Landscape, the most popular genre of the visual arts is explored with more than 100 artworks brought together by curator Luanne McKinnon, to create conversation about landscapes’ many horizons.   The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College opens the 2006 Fall season with three distinctly different exhibitions on Friday, September 8.    The shows Jerry Uelsmann: Mindscapes, Earth and Sky; Tranquil Vistas 19^th Century Landscapes: Featuring the Marion and Samuel Lawrence Collection at the Cornell; and Revising Arcadia: The Landscape in Contemporary Art on view through December 31, are complimented by the Museum’s lecture series featuring NYU art historian and celebrated author Robert Rosenblum (Sep 14), photographer Jerry Uelsmann (Oct 12), and Michael Grunwald (Nov 2) author of “The Swamp: the Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise.”

Jerry Uelsmann: Mindscapes, Earth and Sky features over 40 master photographic montages, created by one of America’s outstanding photographers.  Large black and white prints from Uelsmann’s darkroom frees the viewer from the constraints of reality by calling us into worlds with a sharp vision and ambiguous meaning.

Tranquil Vistas 19^th Century Landscapes: Featuring the Marion W. and Samuel B. Lawrence Collection at the Cornell is a survey of the sublime vision of the utopian spirit as realized by American painters including work by Albert Bierstadt, Herman Herzog, John Kensett, Jervis McEntee, Thomas Moran, William Trost Richards and William Sonntag.  

Revising Arcadia: The Landscape in Contemporary Art conceived as a present-day counterpoint to the Cornell’s exhibition Tranquil Vistas, proposes to see the revision of our natural world through the artistic lens of contemporary documentation, fantasy, inversion and critique with work by 15 contemporary artists, including David Allee, L.C. Armstrong and Skeet McAuley.