IMAGINARY TOPOGRAPHIES
Opening December 5, 2020 at Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans, LA. Runs through January 30, 2021.
Imaginary Topographies is Marjorie Pierson’s fourth solo exhibition with Martine Chaisson Gallery. The show features 22 abstract Louisiana landscapes created with photography and digital collage, presented on sugar cane paper and recycled aluminum. Aerial photographs of the New Orleans coastline are rendered into multi-panel abstracts, and blended digitally with vintage textiles. Surfaces of abandoned Acadian buildings overtaken by nature are collaged into large, painterly landscapes, and combine with antique cartographic elements to create circular topographic maps. The exhibition tells the story of evolving coastal landscapes, local and global, and how we interpret our future within them.
