Staging Ground is a group exhibition featuring five emerging local artists: Chris Gentile, Denise Kupferschmidt, Christina Leung, Christian Maychack and Jeffrey Tranchell. Each work documents an intervention or manipulation with plants and landscapes. Installed on either side of the same wall, Gentile and Maychack represent two different ways of exhibiting plant-based sculptural works. Kupferschmidt or Leung use photography to document their interventions and actions within a landscape. Removed from any natural setting, Tranchell’s magazine collages play with how the landscape is represented and perceived through fashion advertisements. The environment is not the main concern for the artists in Staging Ground, yet each challenges and experiments with the natural world, refusing to accept it at face value.

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