From the oceans that surround this continent to the mountains that divide it – this land is home to some of the world’s most powerful landscapes. Open to all media, following exhibition guidelines, MFA will showcase any original 2-D or 3-D work depicting a landscape from the Americans (*North America, Hawaii, Central America, Caribbean, and South America). Works selected by the juror will be exhibited in MFA’s Circle Gallery from August 25th – September 18, 2021. Show chair: Richard Niewerth.
Juror: Susan “Sue” Frank, Curator at The Phillips Collection
Susan “Sue” Frank is a curator at The Phillips Collection specializing in European and American modernism. She earned her Ph.D. in 1996, joining the staff at the Phillips the following year. At the Phillips Collection, she has curated numerous traveling exhibitions that showcase the museum’s European and American collections for domestic and international audiences in Italy, Spain, Germany, Japan, and South Korea. She has published several books and essays including American Impressionists: Painters of Light and the Modern Landscape; David Smith Invents; and Made in the USA: American Art from The Phillips Collection. Currently, she is co-organizing with the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto) Picasso: Painting the Blue Period, an international loan exhibition that will open at the Phillips in February 2022. The exhibition, which will feature some 45 paintings, along with works on paper and sculpture, is organized around the cutting-edge conservation studies and curatorial research undertaken over the past decade on three iconic Blue Period paintings in the collections of the Phillips and the AGO.