Reducing Landscape was a group exhibition of works by Lance Brown, Kristy Peet, Caroline Roberts, and Krista Steinke on show at Box13 ArtSpace during Fotofest 2018.
Reducing Landscape features the work of four artists using photography to alter and reduce the vast landscape into something else. Working with an artificially flattened picture plane, Lance Brown creates images that focus more on line than place with an aesthetic that owes more to Jackson Pollock than Robert Adams. By creating camera-less lumen prints, Caroline Roberts also avoids showing a physical place. She tries to human-scale the American landscape and deliberately turns her back on the vast vistas of Romanticism, while Kristy Peet uses gold leaf over photographs to turn the landscape into a precious object, thus emphasizing the sublime qualities of nature. Krista Steinke captures the path of the rising and setting sun over the course of time with homemade pinhole cameras.