Camping alone for weeks at a time in some of the world’s most remote and desolate regions, legendary artist Murray Fredericks makes videos and still photographs of earth, sky and the horizon, creating immersive abstract landscapes revealing the transcendence of the natural world. This exhibition, featuring key video and photographic works of the last twenty years, provides a breathtaking view of our place in the cosmos according to Fredericks’s unique vision.

Fredericks’s time-lapse Southern Hemisphere videos take us on an all-night journey to the stars as the Earth rotates on its axis, or as we are transfixed by the miasmal northern lights in his Borealis, seeing how we are fixed on Earth and how life becomes a space-time continuum. Australia’s remote Lake Eyre with its featureless, salt-encrusted surface stretches outward to infinity. Greenland’s ice sheet presents a limitless expanse that could be a place of meditation, activating a heightened sensory experience, or signal danger. Sound in such spaces is muffled. We become disoriented, aware that without gravity holding us, we might simply float off into space. It is these sensations that Fredericks articulates so clearly in his transformative landscapes: antidotes for urban self-absorption.

Educational themes include environmentalism, climate change, geography and astrophysics, land art and exploration.

WORKS
4 videos for in-gallery projection

15 large-scale photographs

2 “Behind the scenes” videos available, showing Fredericks producing the work

DIMENSIONS
Photographs each approx. 60 x 40 ins

For monitor and projection specifications, please inquire

SPACE REQUIREMENTS
280 linear feet (24 linear meters)

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
Artist available for lectures and panel discussions

INQUIRIES
exhibitions@curatorial.org | 626.577.0044

FEE
Please inquire.