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Samuel Rowlett’s Landscape Painting in the Expanded Field redefines the relationship between painting, movement, and environment by transforming the artist’s body into a mobile studio. Central to the work is Rowlett’s self-constructed “backpack studio,” an apparatus consisting of four hinged canvases attached to a harness, accompanied by two folding chairs. When worn, the structure resembles a collapsible, tent-like studio that the artist physically carries while walking through fields, forests, riverbeds, and urban spaces.
In the 2012 film associated with the project, Rowlett traverses natural terrain while the large, door-sized canvases extend from his back. As he moves, the environment interacts with the blank surfaces: sunlight filters through branches, shadows drift across the white primed fabric, and incidental marks accumulate from contact with wind, tree limbs, or rough terrain. These traces form a patina – an unintentional record of the journey – suggesting that landscape painting can occur through bodily engagement rather than applied pigment.
Credits
LEININGER-MILLER, Theresa. Walking Is a Sketching Tool: Neil Goldberg, Samuel Rowlett and Moira Williams at the Dorsky Gallery. Observer, 18 nov. 2013.
MILLER, Earl. Artists’ Walks: The Persistence of Peripateticism. New York: Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, 2013.
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