Cruikshank/Traer, "Mindscape/Landscape"

In this exhibit, digital photographer Anne Cruikshank and landscape painter Deborah Traer create a mash-up showcase, bringing together their two dissimilar yet cohesive bodies of work to explore the power of atmosphere. Cruikshank’s work takes photos of forgotten ancestors and mass-produced artworks and changes a solitary detail to generate something else entirely. The aim of these works is to show that though art need not have meaning, it must be meaningful; that is, the interpretation need not be fixed and immutable but that artwork should elicit a response in the viewer. Meanwhile, Traer's paintings aim to capture the ever-changing mood of nature. By conveying the feelings/memory of a place, and not just a literal description, she explores how individuals derive such memories of nature from their own history and experiences. Twenty percent of sales will go to Watson Children's Shelter.