Camouflage & Wanderlust & more

Light Grey Art Lab will be featuring a series of new exhibitions centered around the theme of wanderlust and the natural world, featuring a huge variety of work including illustrations about remaining unnoticed in Camouflage: Hiding In Plain Sight, new work from Light Grey Art Lab’s most recent Iceland Residency program in Wanderlust, photographs of the open road and outdoor survival in The Endless Quest and A Biographical Representation of Life in the Forest, respectively, and a series of paintings inspired by field guides with Unimaginable Animals. 

 

Camouflage: Hiding In Plain Sight

In the animal kingdom, moving unseen is a vital skill. Some creatures spend their entire existence in a constant struggle to remain undetected, whether to avoid predators, stalk prey, or live in harmless symbiosis. In our daily lives, the ability to camouflage ourselves may not always spell the difference between life and death, but it can be important to our social interactions and emotional well-being. Dealing with the desire to blend in, to assimilate, to fade away into the background is a universal feeling, and Light Grey Art Lab’s newest group exhibition, Camouflage, is all about hiding in plain sight.

 

Wanderlust: The Iceland Residency Exhibition

Artists are no stranger to wanderlust, as creative inspiration is often derived from the heightened senses while exploring unfamiliar territory. Iceland holds a particular draw due to its combination of breathtaking and often hostile landscapes, geological wonders, and quiet isolation. An artist’s unique reaction to new experiences, conversations, and exploration is at the heart of Light Grey Art Lab’s newest show, Wanderlust: The Iceland Residency Exhibition. Wanderlust is the culmination of Light Grey Art Lab’s 2016 Iceland Residency, where over a month-long stay in Iceland, more than thirty artists traveled through Iceland to explore, learn, and create together. The residency provided an opportunity for unbridled creative and natural exploration, as well as an incubator for collaboration and idea sharing.

 

A Biographical Representation of Life in the Forest - Photographs by Matt Moss

Photography for Matt Moss came out of necessity, as a medium for recording what he was doing at that present moment. Moss is an outdoorsman and naturalist from the UK who, specializing in forests and their associated species, works as both a forester and nature guide. As a naturalist, Moss spends his time in the outdoors educating people in topics such as ecology, conservation, and environmental issues. As a forester, he is able to make decisions on how land can be managed in ways that enhance and benefit wildlife.

 

The Endless Quest - Photographs by Tanner Johnson

An old soul with a modern sense of style, California-based Tanner Johnson established his passions at a very young age and ran with them. Aspiring to document "the other half" of the outdoors and an outdoor lifestyle, Johnson combines his passions for hunting, fishing, and mountaineering with a modern outdoor lifestyle through his documentary travel photography. Working with various outdoor industry leaders such as Civilware and Kika Worldwide, Johnson travels the world in an effort to broaden his scope of adventure and experience, document everything on the way, learn the land, and inspire others to never resist the urge of adventure.

 

Unimaginable Animals - Field Guide Illustrations by Kelsey Oseid

When Kelsey Oseid was five years old, her grandpa gave her an encyclopedic volume on animals. Oseid spent her childhood pouring over it, obsessing over the huge variety of species and rigorously scientific illustrations. It’s a feeling Oseid works hard to recreate in her work, heavily influenced by the field guide school of naturalistic illustration. Oseid believes in the theory of botanical art; that you paint to understand. The act of observation and communication through a visual medium leads to a deeper level of comprehension, and this exploration lies at the center of her newest body of work, Unimaginable Animals.

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