The landscape photography exhibit “Homeland: Photographs from the Anthropocene” will be on view March 1-April 5 in the Brick City Gallery.

The exhibit features the works of four artists: Ian Campbell, Terra Fondriest, Dana Fritz and Drew Nikonowicz. Each artist will give a brief gallery talk April 5 from 6:30-7:30 p.m.

The event is curated by Dr. Gwen Walstrand, professor in the Department of Art and Design.

Brick City Gallery is located at 215 West Mill Street, Springfield, MO. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Call 417-837-2330 for additional details. Audiences can also view the exhibit during the First Friday Art Walk on March 1 and April 5 from 6-9 p.m.

The Art and Design department is pleased to host these artists as they exhibit their work to students and the community.

About the Exhibition

Viewers can expect to see large and visually striking images representing various perspectives on contemporary landscape photography.

Each of the four artists has been assigned a large amount of gallery space, allowing viewers to focus on individual groupings of works while seeing connections between them.

“I think it’s a unique opportunity for the public and the community as well as our students to see photographic fine art of this caliber,” Walstrand said. “They are all professional contemporary artists, working in very different approaches with similar subject matter.”

“Their ideas and images are relevant to environmental, perceptual, scientific, social, familial and other contemporary concerns for humans on earth.”

The artists

Ian Campbell

Ian Campbell is an artist and photographer based in western New York state. His work in photography and other media creates a subjective, poetic record of his interactions with nature using a range of traditional and experimental processes that reference the work of early 19th century photographers.

Campbell holds an MFA in Photography + Integrated Media from Ohio University and a BA from Wheaton College, IL. He has also completed a semester-long student residency program at the New York Center for Art and Media Studies.

Campbell’s work has appeared in galleries, film festivals, publications and conferences throughout the U.S.

His recent achievements include solo exhibitions at the Batesville Area Arts Council and the Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas and an artist residency at the University of Notre Dame Environmental Research Center.

Terra Fondriest

Terra Fondriest is a freelance documentary photographer based in the Ozarks region of Arkansas who brings the unique perspective of someone living and raising a family in rural America. Her passion for visual storytelling can be seen in her series “Ozark Life,” in which she not only documents her family but also others within her small community as part of a collective patchwork of everyday life.

Fondriest started in photography, completely self-taught, but actively sought mentorships and communities to further her study. She’s been involved in the National Geographic Your Shot community and became a member of the highly regarded Women Photograph in 2018.

In 2019, she began freelancing with clients such as The New York Times, The Nature Conservancy, The Washington Post, Vogue, National Audubon Society, The Bitter Southerner, Bloomberg, Insider, Medium and more.

Dana Fritz

Dana Fritz uses photography to explore ways that humans shape and represent the natural world in cultivated and constructed landscapes. Fritz has a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Arizona State University. She is currently Hixson-Lied Professor of Art in the School of Art, Art History & Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Her prints are held in collections including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Bryn Mawr College Special Collections, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Nevada Museum of Art and Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Drew Nikonowicz

Drew Nikonowicz’s work explores the 21st century landscape by combining computer simulations with analogue photographic processes. He earned a BFA from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2016 and is currently pursuing an MFA at the University of Arkansas.

In 2015 Nikonowicz received the Aperture Portfolio Prize and the Lenscratch Student Prize. In 2017 he completed a one-year residency at Fabrica Research Centre in Italy.

His first photobook, “This World and Others Like It,” was co-published by Yoffy Press and FW:Books in 2019. It was awarded Jurors’ Special Mention at the 2019 Paris Photo/Aperture Foundation Photobook Awards.

Nikonowicz has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Mark your calendar

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News written by Mariah Hunter and edited by the Reynolds College Communications team.

Hunter is a graduate assistant for the Department of Art and Design. She is working towards her master’s degree in writing at Missouri State University.