Until the Moon Comes Over the Mountain

Vija Celmins, Raven Chacon, Ann Craven, N. Dash, Jason Dodge, Maren Hassinger, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Sky Hopinka, Brice Marden, Teresa Margolles, Agnes Martin, Ana Mendieta, Delcy Morelos, Lucy Skaer, Alan Sonfist, Michelle Stuart, Martha Tuttle, Meg Webster, Lawrence Weiner Until the Moon Comes Over the Mountain is a two-part exhibition that considers material and conceptual approaches to representing landscape and physical earth. While thematically and curatorially related—and united by the title, itself a reference to Lawrence Weiner's 1994 text-based work—each exhibition addresses a variety of formal, personal, and political concerns that play out across their respective spaces in Manhattan and Long Island's East End. Until the Moon Comes Over the Mountain features work by pioneering figures of land art alongside contemporary artists redefining one's relationship to place through a wide range of media and formal approaches—conceptualism and abstraction to documentary and pictorial representation. Eschewing the oftentimes monumental approach of historic land art for a more diverse and intimate scale, the artists in Until the Moon Comes Over the Mountain examine personal and collective attachments to land. Part II at the Parrish focuses on a formal exploration, rooted in materials either taken from the earth or directly referencing it. In Delcy Morelos's hanging sculptures, Organized Salt Water, 2014, strips of natural fiber are coated with washes of soil and acrylic shades of red and brown in a slow process that carries the imprint of the earth. Decentering a purely Western notion of landscape, Sonya Kelliher-Combs combines customary Iñupiaq and Athabascan materials from Alaska with synthetic ones that range from animal hides to nylon threads to acknowledge and celebrate the land from which they are made. Until the Moon Comes Over the Mountain is organized by the Parrish Art Museum and The Flag Art Foundation. The exhibition is curated by Jonathan Rider, Flag's Director, and Scout Hutchinson, The Flag Art Foundation Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Parrish Art Museum, with Caroline Cassidy, Flag's Deputy Director.