June 29- July 27

Alan Crockett’s new paintings explore the remote tributaries of the Klamath River watershed and it’s deeply incised bedrock canyons and mountains. The current Klamath-Siskiyou Art Center show, “Map” weaves together a variety of investigations into the connection between topographical maps and images of landscape.

By etching actual topographic lines into some of the paintings surface, Crockett achieves a mysterious composite image that vacillates between these two forms of description challenging both point of view and perception of place.

In some paintings the topographical contour lines are painted over the landscape winding across the surface at once emerging then sinking back again like wave patterns or wood grain.

In other paintings the remnants of the topo lines are almost invisible or entirely obscured leaving one to seek traces of the patterns beneath the surface.