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The paintings, drawings, and photographs in 'Moving Pictures' are primarily based on Terry Plater's travels in Europe in 2019 and, to emphasize the act of travel as passing through, many paintings are based on photographs taken from train windows.

More than simple stock motif renderings of "pretty landscapes," this work riffs on the many ways in which landscape --the land-- works as a vehicle for those passing through to imagine, to understand, to invent, and to challenge. In this scenario, "landscape" represents the unknown as much as the known, something that conceals as much as it reveals.

The installation is conceived as a way for the viewer to take part in the process of seeing and thinking that artists rely on in the process of artmaking. Thus, rough drawings, preparatory sketches, and multiple views of repeating images in different media are displayed. The project, in keeping with the imperatives of travel itself, is a work in progress.

The exhibition is at the CAP ArtSpace through January.

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