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Melissa Catanese: Fever Field

While working on her project, The Lottery, artist Melissa Catanese of Pittsburgh incorporated an early motif of California poppies into her images, using them as symbolic representations of humans. As the world faced a pandemic, the meaning of these flowers evolved to include messages of grief, remembrance, and hope for regeneration. For her book, The Lottery, Catanese captured a single, powerful black-and-white image of the poppies, serving as an elegy and a symbol of resilience in the face of loss. optimism.

Catanese's Fever Field, featuring California poppies, hands, seabirds, and sun, is transformed into a stunning wall installation using pigment, cyanotype, and carbon prints. This immersive and diaphanous exhibit will be showcased at Phoenix Art Museum's Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape.Additionally, her artist-book-catalog Fever Field captures the essence of this evanescent and luminous piece, incorporating elements from The Lottery's dark, tense atmosphere.

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Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape

Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape

Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscapeexamines environmental history and degradation, particularly in the American landscape, as well as our ecological present and future. Featuring a range of works by more than 15 contemporary lens-based artists, including black-and-white images and immersive installations, the exhibition offers a compelling view into ecological trauma, our personal and collective relationships to land, and how photography can help us envision paths forward.

Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscapeexamines environmental history and degradation, particularly in the American landscape, as well as our ecological present and future. Featuring a range of works by more than 15 contemporary lens-based artists, including black-and-white images and immersive installations, the exhibition offers a compelling view into ecological trauma, our personal and collective relationships to land, and how photography can help us envision paths forward.

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