Bellevue Arts Museum is pleased to host Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place, a traveling exhibition that features contemporary works by eleven artists who employ diverse materials and techniques to address the uneasy balance between the natural and constructed environment.

Twenty-two, large-scale, mixed-media works will be on indoor and outdoor display throughout the Museum.

Probing myriad associations to landscape and place, the artists reveal the fantasy of nature as a place of retreat and wonder; nostalgia for a pristine pre-industrialized landscape; and desire and eroticism evident in cycles of cultivation, production and consumption. By employing richly symbolic objects and installations, the artists in Material Terrain reveal complex affiliations to the environment. Through exposing what partnerships are forged, they allow us to consider the variety of ways in which we view ourselves in the context of nature.

Artists included in this exhibition are Michele Brody, Kendall Buster, Ming Fay, Donald Lipski, Dennis Oppenheim, Roxy Paine, Wendy Ross, John Ruppert, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Valeska Soares, and James Surls.

Exhibition organized by International Arts & Artists, Washington, DC with support from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Local showing made possible by The City of Bellevue.