The Photographic Eye on Landscape Lecture Series will present contemporary perspectives on a traditional art genre. The first artist in the series is Lori Nix, whose work is currently on view at the UCR/CMP.

Photographer Lori Nix grew up in the Midwest and her identity, imagination and sense of humor are clearly shaped by her childhood experiences. Much like the story of frozen frogs, her series Accidentally Kansas and Some Other Place are filled with vividly colorful and meticulously detailed images that are simultaneously charmingly familiar and eerily awry. By photographing miniature toy building sets that evoke the moments just before and after the terror of a natural disaster or horrific event, her work offers an eerie, yet reserved, approach to landscape through its constructedness.

Join us to hear her humorous stories, technical tips, influences, ideas and more. Admission is Free.
Location:UCR/CMP

Lori Nix lived most of her life in the rural Midwest before moving to New York City where she currently resides. She has received numerous photography awards. Most recently she was a recipient of a Light Work Artist-in-Residency grant, which was accompanied by an exhibition and monograph of her work. Nix is also a 1998 recipient of a Greater Columbus Ohio Arts Grant,1999 recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Grant; and participated in the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 2000. In 2001, she was an artist-in-residence at Light Work in Syracuse, New York. She has exhibited at Kagan Martos Gallery, New York; White Columns, New York; Camerawork, San Francisco; and the Houston Center for Photography.