IMPRESSIONS IN PLACE will investigate the human need, since the dawn of time, to leave behind a mark that records existence; a mark that establishes and documents a “sense of place” – a meaningful connectedness and an artistic awareness of how a place is impressed upon the artist and the artist is impressed upon the place. Artists are asked to consider the place they have created for themselves here in the Sonoran Desert – outward or inward, urban or rural, in the studio or out in the field, intentional or unintentional – actual footprint or carbon footprint, geographical mapping or mental mapping – and, how the self is “impressed in place” and vice versa. The possibilities move back and forth and are endless – from print making impressions to impressionistic views of the landscape. Artists from the region are invited to submit 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional works in any media for consideration in this curated exhibition.
