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Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents An Artificial Wilderness: The Landscape in Contemporary Photography

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art presents An Artificial Wilderness: The Landscape in Contemporary Photography, an exhibition on view through January 5, 2014.

Rosemary Laing
 (Australian, born 1959), groundspeed (Rose Petal) #17, 2001
. Chromogenic color print, 48 x 82 in. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Alexander A. Goldfarb Contemporary Art Acquisition Fund, 2006.26.1
Rosemary Laing
 (Australian, born 1959), groundspeed (Rose Petal) #17, 2001
. Chromogenic color print, 48 x 82 in. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Alexander A. Goldfarb Contemporary Art Acquisition Fund, 2006.26.1

An Artificial Wilderness explores man’s relationship with the natural landscape in the forms of construction, destruction, and intervention through non-traditional, altered landscapes from around the world. Featuring works by 16 prominent photographers dating from the 1960s to the present, An Artificial Wilderness is the Wadsworth’s first photography exhibition in nearly 10 years and pulls almost exclusively from the museum’s permanent collection.

An Artificial Wilderness includes work by Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Claire Beckett, Frank Breuer, Edward Burtynsky, Olafur Eliasson, Andy Goldsworthy, Rosemary Laing, Louise Lawler, Ana Mendieta, Ed Ruscha, Sandy Skoglund, Doug and Mike Starn, and James Welling.

Please visit www.wadsworthatheneum.org for more information.