LAND-PEOPLE-MOVEMENT: Selections from the Collections of Nickle Galleries

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James Slingerland, "1000 Rock River (a work in progress)," 1996 – 1999

installation view, Collection of Nickle GalleriesPhoto: John Hails

Curated by Christine Sowiak, organized by Nickle Galleries

We began planning this exhibition near the end of a winter determined to hang on longer than most, so perhaps that is why we were drawn to works from all the collections that took us outside. To the wilderness, to city streets and small towns, to the intersection of people and the world. Our focus though became not landscape, or at least not exclusively, but ways of looking at that outside world that help us move through it. Ideas of how rivers work, how the outside is brought inside, how it’s charted and mapped, people watching ...