Howard House: Terra Non Firma

Howard House: Terra Non FirmaJune 16 - July 16, 2005604 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104tel: 206.256.6399email: info@howardhouse.net...The American landscape is no longer the pregnant garden replete with promise that lured the gaze of 19th century painters such as Asher B. Durand or Alfred Bierstadt. The wilderness has been paved over to make way for suburban dwellings. Encounters with displaced wildlife--cougars, black bears--are a jarring result of suburban expansion. City parks, topiary gardens, and nature reserves are simulations for what is lost and gained in progress...Arizona artist Carrie Marill's charismatic gouache paintings feature houseplants in electrically heated pots and Nature t-shirts of the type found in rural novelty shops or zoos..."