Scapes
January 11th – February 15th
Craighead Green Gallery is excited to kick off the 2025 exhibition season with Scapes, a captivating group show that invites viewers to reflect on landscape, both natural and man-made, that shape our experiences, perceptions, and memories. This exhibition is composed of works by nine distinguished artists from across the globe. Scapes explores the diversity in which the environment influences one’s identity, transformation, and emotional response.
The term “scape” refers not only to physical landscape, be it cityscape, seascape, or dreamscapes but also refers to the emotional and psychological terrain these spaces evoke. In Scapes, each artist uses color, texture, and form to create work that resonate on both literal and metaphorical levels, transforming landscapes into vehicles for broader reflections on the human connection, and the passage of time.
The exhibition will feature the work of the following artists:
Rich Bowman (Kansas City)
A master of capturing the wide-open skies of the American Midwest, Bowman’s landscape paintings are defined by their expansive horizons and awe-inspiring cloudscapes. His low horizon lines create a sense of vastness and tranquility, inviting viewers to contemplate the infinite beauty of nature.
Connie Connally (Dallas)
Known for her poetic colorscapes, Connally’s expressive brushwork and dynamic marks bring nature to life. Her paintings represent the intersection of memory and imagination, where vibrant colors and sweeping gestures conjure a sense of movement, emotion, and temporal beauty.
Peter Drake (New York)
Drake’s moody, atmospheric lake scenes evoke a sense of nostalgia, transporting the viewer to the serenity of nature. His works offer an emotional escape, inviting contemplation on the profound beauty of the natural world.
Jay Maggio (Dallas)
Maggio’s impressionistic portraits of local trees transcend mere representation, capturing the essence of his subjects through intricate patterns and striking color palettes. His work presents nature as a living, breathing entity, full of texture and energy.
Ed Hall (Dallas)
Hall’s abstract landscapes, with their layered color fields, distill the essence of nature into emotional impressions of land and sky. His minimalist approach invites the viewer to connect with the emotional core of a place, rather than its physical details.
Anders Moseholm (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Moseholm’s expressive cityscapes and interior scenes blur the lines between reality and imagination. His use of unexpected characters, marks, and colors creates a surreal, almost dreamlike quality that draws the viewer into his unique vision of the world.
Patrick Pietropoli (b. Paris, France)
Pietropoli’s evocative paintings of historic Italian and French interiors offer a portal into another time and place. His richly detailed works create a sense of immersion—both in the depicted environment and in the historical moments they represent.
Rebecca Shewmaker (Dallas)
A landscape artist with a unique approach, Shewmaker creates stunning depictions of national parks using thread instead of paint. Through her intricate embroidery on cotton twill, Shewmaker transforms thread into a vibrant landscape, blending texture and color
in a fresh, innovative way.
Carolin Wehrmann (Lübeck, Germany)
Wehrmann’s hyper realistic seascapes are renowned for their striking precision and depth. Through expert varnishing techniques reminiscent of old master paintings, Wehrmann captures the movement and intensity of water, creating seascapes that are both visually stunning and emotionally powerful.
This exhibition continues the gallery’s tradition of annual themed group shows, following the success of last year’s Between the Lines. With a rich diversity of international, national, and local artists, Scapes promises to be a thought-provoking exploration of how we relate to the landscapes that surround us.
