HIGH POINT, N.C., Aug. 10, 2015 – High Point University will showcase a dynamic art exhibition on the genre of landscape titled, “Sky Above Earth Below: Tradition and Transformation in Landscape.” The exhibit will be on view Aug. 25 through Oct. 10 in the Sechrest Art Gallery at HPU.
Guest curator Richard Gantt will hold a lecture on the exhibition at 3:30 p.m. in Norton Hall 101 on Sept. 18. A reception from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Sechrest Gallery will follow Gantt’s presentation.
The exhibition explores the genre of landscape and its foundation in the Romantic Movement. It also presents subsequent departures and redefinitions of the genre from the Modern and Post-Modern periods.
“Given the widely varying interests that artists pursue, and the greatly expanded areas of possible approaches for expression in our time, we have an exciting and highly divergent array of visual works from which we have made our selections for this exhibition,” says Gantt, art history professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. “Consequently, the extensive range of creative involvement with landscape is well represented through a wide span of media, artistic engagements and historical movements.”
The exhibition includes many 19th century paintings from the High Point University Permanent Collection, including works by Gottlieb Daniel Paul Weber, George W. Johnstone and Edward Charles Williams. The Weatherspoon Art Museum, private collector Randall Johnson and artist Nan Covert have also lent modern and contemporary works by Ben Norris, Gertraud Brausewetter, Francis Speight, Jim Dine, Nancy Graves and more.
Gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Admission is free. Call 336-841-4680 for further information.