TRACEY MOFFATT @ Tyler Rollins Fine Art

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TRACEY MOFFATT @ Tyler Rollins Fine Art

October 21st, 2013 by fstop

Night Spirits No 7 “Nunnery in Green, Desert in Blue, By the orange tree in Yellow”

TRACEY MOFFATT
SPIRIT LANDSCAPES
October 24 – December 21

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, Oct. 24, from 6:00 – 8:00 pm
ARTIST TALKS: Saturday, Nov. 2, at 3:00 pm, and Saturday, Nov. 9, at 3:00 pm

Spirit Landscapes is a major new body of work from Tracey Moffatt, comprising six distinct components: five different photographic series and a moving image piece. It represents the artist’s return to highly personal themes relating to family, home, and the land, specifically within the context of her Australian Aboriginal heritage. A key concept is the notion of a “return to country,” a seeking out of one’s ancestral lands and an attempt to reconnect with history and tradition. After many years living abroad, Moffatt began a three year exploration of places in her native Australia that were scenes of important events in her own life and that of her family. The resulting body of work, her first since the Plantation series of 2009, reflects on the way her personal story is intertwined with the often tragic history of race relations in Australia. Yet, as Moffat points out, it can also be “opened up” and read as a universal meditation on the significance of land and place.

Tyler Rollins Fine Art
529 West 20th Street, 10W
New York, NY 10011

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