For Immediate Release Delicious Spectacle presents:

Consolidated Landscapes

Artists: Brad Birchett Travis Childers Robert Long Matthew Shelley Jassie Rios and Renee van der Stelt 04.12.13 - 05.03.13 Opening Reception: April 12th 6-10pm 1366 Quincy Street NW, Washington D.C. 20011

<Matthew Shelley YB 17, 2013 Collage on Paper

Washington, D.C. - Delicious Spectacle is pleased to present Consolidated Landscapes, a group exhibition that brings together artists all working around ideas of landscape. Throughout art history representations of landscape have always interested the artist, as both a physical and mental space. Today many artists approach this subject, as a way to reflect on our current relationship with the land. Consolidated Landscapes displays the work of 6 artists whom speak the language of landscape more than just figuratively. Together we see various approaches of representing our structured living environment, land, space, our mind, future and past. In this way, ideas of landscape transcend the physical and begin to ask questions of the natural verses the artificial, the sublime, our relationship to the earth, as well as our relationship to time, space, and gravity. The works in the exhibition display these ideas through video, installation, sculpture, drawing and sound. Consolidated together in one gallery setting, landscape is pinned down quite literally as well as conceptually. The history of the love affair between the artist and their environment breathes strong and loud.
About Delicious Spectacle Delicious Spectacle is a curatorial experiment and project space founded by Victoria Greising, Megan Mueller, Dan Perkins, Camden Place, and Sam Scharf. The space was founded for the growing community of emerging artists and artist run spaces in the District of Columbia. Throughout the year, Delicious Spectacle will curate multi-disciplinary exhibitions, host lectures, critiques, and critical theory discussions. This programing attempts to cultivate dialogue surrounding a wide variety of contemporary art making practices and operates as a space for artists and curators to execute novel and challenging projects that redefine and further their thinking. For more information please visit our website www.deliciousspectacle.com, like us on Facebook, and follow up on twitter @DSpectacle.