I stopped by the new, adorably tucked-away location of CULT / Aimee Friberg Exhibitions the other day to see Terri Lowenthal's solo show "Psychscapes." Though I'm not always a big fan of the verbiage galleries use to explain what an artist is doing, in this case I think some of the copy about the show does an admirable job or articulating what's going on here -
"Terri Loewenthal investigates the sublime expanse of land and sky romanticized in the still-potent mythology of Utopian California...
These single-exposure, in-camera compositions utilize optics developed by the artist, to compress space instead of time....
Standing in front of the works, one is brought to the sensation of beholding a vista in all its glory...
Her capture of daylight’s theater of light against a geometry of mountain vista alludes to a hallucinogenic or kaleidoscopic viewing of landscape...
The perceived idealism of these surreal environments nods to both aura photography and the distorted experience of psychedelia, long-associated with California."
The colored frames are a nice touch, too. And the fresh raw space (hidden away behind a residential building in the Western Addison) makes a perfect setting for these gems.
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