Join three esteemed museum directors and Mirage exhibition artist Frances Ashforth in a discussion that will explore why landscape remains an important subject for artists in 21st century America. At this moment, when some critics declare painting dead and many contemporary artists work in non-traditional media, why does artwork that responds to landscape continue to resonate? How does the trajectory of landscape art mirror the time in which it is made?
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Jim Ballinger served as Director of Phoenix Art Museum for 33 years. Peter Hassrick is former Director of the Buffalo Bill Center of the West and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Duncan Robinson led the Yale Center for British Art for 14 years. Painter and printmaker Frances Ashforth has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions throughout the U.S.