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Held in place by our planets gravity, atmosphere surrounds us like a sea and makes our world uniquely habitable. Clouds and fogs, gases and vapors play wonderful tricks with the light of the sun and moon, bending it each day, quite routinely, into great swaths of beauty. Artists have always been fascinated by the effects of light filtering through the stuff that we breathe, and discovered eloquent metaphors there for our own internal weather.
Atmosphere showcases the work of 5 artists whose works extend the tradition of the American Luminists of the late 19th century. Painters like Ryder, Kensett, and Martin Johnson Heade, who found in the delicately suffused effects of light a quietly reflected sense of transcendental awe, forming the basis of a deep identification with the processes of nature and the phenomenological world. |
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| Lana Bernberg |
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| Sharon Brant |
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| Sheila Kramer |
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