Sheldon Statewide 2024–2025: Finding Horizons

A horizon line in a landscape composition provides the viewer with a sense of perspective—it tells you where you are in relation to other elements. Horizons show where the sky and the earth meet, and can also allude to an artist’s interests, priorities, and personal relationship with the land they depict. This exhibition showcases 15 artists’ unique approaches to landscape through their use of this line.
Artists such as Eugene Holgate Jr. worked in a tradition in which features on the horizon were mandatory aspects of landscape painting. Conversely, others, including Russell T. Gordon and Thelma Lorie Christenson, obscure the horizon in their work to explore the tension between realism and abstraction. Photographers Lucinda Devlin and Manuel Álvarez Bravo, working in black and white, demonstrate the grounding value of an apparent boundary.
Horizons grant insight into where one stands both physically and metaphorically. Within the visual language of landscapes, they can be entry points to understanding and appreciation. When you leave this exhibition, find the horizon and consider where you stand.
Join us Thursday for a reception at 10:00am with our dedicated gallery sponsors NebraskaLand Bank, hosted by Art study league