Maps are visual information resources that readily lend themselves to
referencing in other visual media, such as traditional art forms like
painting and quilting. There is a natural affinity between the graphic
qualities of maps and art. There is also a rich metaphorical language of
mapping which artists use to express ideas about aspects of our lives (for
example, the concepts of "place" or "travel" or "topography"). We have
selected a few sites that display evocative artistic uses of map forms
and symbolism.
Brian Dettmer
At the Packer Schopf Gallery in Chicago. "Dettmer's work creates new relationships and meanings that emerge from the alteration of text and image, through sculptural subtraction and forces the viewer to respond with their own loaded feelings and views." (from the webpage)
Suzanne Howes-Stevens Using maps as a background, "Howes-Stevens paints scenes of the world at its edges, where water meets land, primarily images inspired by her life in the northeast." At Migration: A Gallery.
William Kentridge: Tapestries
Exhibition in the "Notations" series at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (December 12, 2007 - April 6, 2008). "Incisively political and profoundly poetic, William Kentridge's protean artistic investigation continues in his beautiful series of tapestries begun in 2001. The tapestries stem from a series of drawings in which he conjured shadowy figures from ripped construction paper and collaged them onto the web-like background of nineteenth-century atlas maps..."
PAULA
SCHER: THE MAPS, an exhibition of paintings by artist and renowned graphic designer Paula Scher at the Maya Stendhal Gallery in New York.
