"The exhibition, which is on view at Umpqua Valley Arts until March 13, with an artist's talk on February 6, takes note of destruction but also points to signs of survival. Sarah Grew uses the most archival of reproduction processes, carbon prints. Kathleen Caprario is inspired by nature's resilience through adaptation. Sandra Honda's installations, "activated" by Mei-ling Lee's technology know-how, focus on how Oregonians are tied to history and the land, as well as to each other."
"Caprario is a semi-retired art teacher at Lane Community College whose work includes tapestries, paper panels, mixed media painting and installation. Living in a Postcard-Fact and Fiction is a wall installation that pairs her photographs with post cards. The work was inspired by a 2024 residency at Pine Meadow Ranch and Center for Art and Agriculture outside Sisters, Oregon where, she said, the landscape was so picture-perfect she felt as if she was "in a postcard.""
"Then came winds that blew in smoke from a nearby wildfire and "the perfect Western landscape" was replaced by "smoke draped mountains," a reminder of climate change. Pairing consumer images with her own pictures, she compares reality to myth. "The show is not about doom and gloom," explained Caprario. Nevertheless, she feels we must address the situation we're in so that we can adapt accordingly. In other words, you can only adapt to nature, not to some ideal of it."
Shifting Landscapes presents four artists whose work responds to climate change by emphasizing durability and adaptation. Sarah Grew employs carbon printing, a highly archival reproduction method. Kathleen Caprario combines tapestries, mixed media and a wall installation pairing photographs with postcards inspired by a 2024 residency at Pine Meadow Ranch and Center for Art and Agriculture. Wildfire smoke transformed postcard-perfect vistas into smoke-draped mountains, prompting contrasts between consumer imagery and lived reality. Sandra Honda’s technology-activated installations, developed with Mei-ling Lee, explore Oregonians’ connections to land, history and community. The exhibition balances acknowledgment of destruction with signs of survival and the necessity of adapting to nature.
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