Koplin Del Rio Gallery is pleased to present Altered Scapes, a group exhibition of paintings, sculpture, and mixed media works influenced by Earth’s landscape, and its rapid transformation. Featured in the exhibition are four artists: Phillip Govedare & Jodi Rockwell, both based in Seattle, Laurie Hogin, based in Chicago, and Josh Dorman from New York.  The exhibition will be accompanied by a panel discussion in partnership with the UW’s Earthlab, focused around the relationship between art & the environment, and the potential of art to influence our understanding of climate change. 
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Philip Govedare 
“My work evolved out of abstraction and as I worked further, it became clear to me that I was really painting landscape. At one point, I decided to embrace the subject with all its history, complexities, and layered meanings.”
Philip Govedare’s expansive oil paintings capture the majesty of the Earth’s vast surface and inherent natural beauty, with aerial perspectives that emphasize its rapidly changing surface and humanity’s destructive footprint. 
Philip Govedare (b.1954) has exhibited in the Seattle area for over 25 years, with solo exhibitions at Prographica Gallery, Seattle, WA, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA and institutional exhibitions at the Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA(2019); and SURGE Exhibition Partnership: Imagining Climate Futures, sponsored by University of Washington’s EarthLab, Skagit Climate Science Consortium at the Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA(2018). He is Professor of Art at the University of Washington, lives and works in Seattle, WA.
Josh Dorman
“Carving into the surface of my paintings has reminded me that play is crucial. After the 2016 election, I needed to break things, to construct an alternative reality to escape into. The new work allows me to push space, fantasy, and infinite detail, while also speaking about the catastrophe of climate change and the human impact on the planet.”
Dorman’s work combines collage elements clipped from antique topographic maps, textbooks, and how-to manuals with hand-drawn and painted passages in ink, acrylic, and graphite. They are at once minutely detailed and grandly fantastic visions of surface and subterranean landscapes. Fastidiously rendered, his prophetic layerings serve as a visual record of our histories, and occupancy of the planet. 
Bio
Josh Dorman (b.1966) graduated from Skidmore College (BA) and Queens College (MFA). Dorman has had numerous solo exhibitions in Los Angeles (with Koplin Del Rio), New York and London. He is currently working with the Memory Bridge Foundation, Chicago,IL on a project with “mapping” of the internal geographies and memories of Alzheimers and Dementia patients. He teaches, lives and works in New York, NY. 
Laurie Hogin
“This work is one of an ongoing series referring to the history of habitat dioramas, a natural history museum practice that presented taxidermied species in narrative tableaux. The foreground, analogous to the stage set in a diorama, is full of candy-colored berries, cartoon flowers, and dying timber with fungi decorated like flag buntings, metaphors for political rot, or, more hopefully, political renewal. The animals, likewise, are stuck in their languishing environment, but their shapes and colors suggest Anthropocene evolution and adaptive diversity, and their gestures suggest agency—their story does not end here.”
Hogin’s skillful oil paintings render allegorical animal portraits within apocalyptic diorama environs as reflections of humanity. Angst ridden creatures in their natural habitat, imbued with brilliant seductive colors conjure topics of love, pleasure, desire, attraction, and attachment, as well as anger, obsession, addiction, violence, and grief. Hogin’s  toxic color palette, reflective to how marketers prey on consumers, linger as a point of empathy for all natural life on earth, and the ecosystems that support them.
Bio
Laurie Hogin (b. 1963) received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Her work is exhibited regularly across the country and is in numerous private and public collections, including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; The United States Federal Reserve; The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; among many others. She is currently Professor with Tenure, Painting and Sculpture Program, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She lives and works in Chicago, IL.
Jodi Rockwell
“The cause and effect of fluid materials colliding with rigid surfaces creates a tension in this series of work reminiscent of land formations and the body.  Gravity weighs on its form along with the interior liquid settling in the valleys and folds.  Each container holds a memory of another place, time or psychological state.  My work emphasizes the dual concept of the human experience as both highly personal and universal.”
Bio
Jodi Rockwell is a Seattle-based artist primarily working with ceramics and installation.  She holds an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Washington [2001] and co-founded Rockland Residency with her partner, Shawn Landis, in 2015.  Rockwell has exhibited locally and nationally for the past 20 years, notably as a solo artist at Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival, The Henry Art Gallery, Soil Gallery and Vital 5 Productions in Seattle, WA, The Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, WA, and The Lab Gallery in NYC.  Her functional pottery can be found locally at KOBO Shop & Gallery.  Rockwell works out of three studios: Rockland Woods on the Kitsap peninsula where she runs artist residency programs, Lakeside Upper School where she teaches and JRock Studios at home in Seattle where she raises her family. 

Koplin Del Rio Gallery is pleased to present Altered Scapes, a group exhibition of paintings, sculpture, and mixed media works influenced by Earth’s landscape, and its rapid transformation. Featured in the exhibition are four artists: Phillip Govedare & Jodi Rockwell, both based in Seattle, Laurie Hogin, based in Chicago, and Josh Dorman from New York.  The exhibition will be accompanied by a panel discussion in partnership with the UW’s Earthlab, focused around the relationship between art & the environment, and the potential of art to influence our understanding of climate change. 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Philip Govedare 

“My work evolved out of abstraction and as I worked further, it became clear to me that I was really painting landscape. At one point, I decided to embrace the subject with all its history, complexities, and layered meanings.”

Philip Govedare’s expansive oil paintings capture the majesty of the Earth’s vast surface and inherent natural beauty, with aerial perspectives that emphasize its rapidly changing surface and humanity’s destructive footprint. 

Philip Govedare (b.1954) has exhibited in the Seattle area for over 25 years, with solo exhibitions at Prographica Gallery, Seattle, WA, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA and institutional exhibitions at the Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA(2019); and SURGE Exhibition Partnership: Imagining Climate Futures, sponsored by University of Washington’s EarthLab, Skagit Climate Science Consortium at the Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA(2018). He is Professor of Art at the University of Washington, lives and works in Seattle, WA.

Josh Dorman

“Carving into the surface of my paintings has reminded me that play is crucial. After the 2016 election, I needed to break things, to construct an alternative reality to escape into. The new work allows me to push space, fantasy, and infinite detail, while also speaking about the catastrophe of climate change and the human impact on the planet.”

Dorman’s work combines collage elements clipped from antique topographic maps, textbooks, and how-to manuals with hand-drawn and painted passages in ink, acrylic, and graphite. They are at once minutely detailed and grandly fantastic visions of surface and subterranean landscapes. Fastidiously rendered, his prophetic layerings serve as a visual record of our histories, and occupancy of the planet. 

Bio

Josh Dorman (b.1966) graduated from Skidmore College (BA) and Queens College (MFA). Dorman has had numerous solo exhibitions in Los Angeles (with Koplin Del Rio), New York and London. He is currently working with the Memory Bridge Foundation, Chicago,IL on a project with “mapping” of the internal geographies and memories of Alzheimers and Dementia patients. He teaches, lives and works in New York, NY. 

Laurie Hogin

“This work is one of an ongoing series referring to the history of habitat dioramas, a natural history museum practice that presented taxidermied species in narrative tableaux. The foreground, analogous to the stage set in a diorama, is full of candy-colored berries, cartoon flowers, and dying timber with fungi decorated like flag buntings, metaphors for political rot, or, more hopefully, political renewal. The animals, likewise, are stuck in their languishing environment, but their shapes and colors suggest Anthropocene evolution and adaptive diversity, and their gestures suggest agency—their story does not end here.”

Hogin’s skillful oil paintings render allegorical animal portraits within apocalyptic diorama environs as reflections of humanity. Angst ridden creatures in their natural habitat, imbued with brilliant seductive colors conjure topics of love, pleasure, desire, attraction, and attachment, as well as anger, obsession, addiction, violence, and grief. Hogin’s  toxic color palette, reflective to how marketers prey on consumers, linger as a point of empathy for all natural life on earth, and the ecosystems that support them.

Bio

Laurie Hogin (b. 1963) received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BFA from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Her work is exhibited regularly across the country and is in numerous private and public collections, including the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; The United States Federal Reserve; The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; among many others. She is currently Professor with Tenure, Painting and Sculpture Program, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Jodi Rockwell

“The cause and effect of fluid materials colliding with rigid surfaces creates a tension in this series of work reminiscent of land formations and the body.  Gravity weighs on its form along with the interior liquid settling in the valleys and folds.  Each container holds a memory of another place, time or psychological state.  My work emphasizes the dual concept of the human experience as both highly personal and universal.”

Bio

Jodi Rockwell is a Seattle-based artist primarily working with ceramics and installation.  She holds an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Washington [2001] and co-founded Rockland Residency with her partner, Shawn Landis, in 2015.  Rockwell has exhibited locally and nationally for the past 20 years, notably as a solo artist at Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival, The Henry Art Gallery, Soil Gallery and Vital 5 Productions in Seattle, WA, The Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, WA, and The Lab Gallery in NYC.  Her functional pottery can be found locally at KOBO Shop & Gallery.  Rockwell works out of three studios: Rockland Woods on the Kitsap peninsula where she runs artist residency programs, Lakeside Upper School where she teaches and JRock Studios at home in Seattle where she raises her family.