Carte de California: Contested Terrain

Carte de California: Contested Terrain, an exhibition opening February, 9, 2013, at the Cal Poly Pomona W. Keith & Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery co-curated by Chaffey's Denise Johnson, Adjunct Faculty in Art History and Photo History, and Rebecca Trawick, Director of the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art.

Carte de California: Contested Terrain
Enid Baxter Blader, Jeff Cain, Julie Shafer, and Dee Williams
Curated by Denise Johnson + Rebecca Trawick
February 9 – March 23, 2013
Artists reception: February 9, 630-930pm

Carte de California: Contested Terrain features artists who explore California's landscapes, which were surveyed and plundered concurrent with the development of photography and the rise of popular image reproduction techniques like the carte-de-visite and stereo-card. Works in the exhibition will consider mapped spaces as divisional device and means of establishing the Other while questioning the arbitrary nature of boundaries that attempt to declare normal vs. marginal, mine vs. yours, the empowered vs. the exploited, and what is valued or abandoned. Carte de California: Contested Terrain will ask viewers to consider the contemporary implications of Manifest Destiny policies and capitalist practices as they mark the western landscape a contested terrain.