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Small Worlds Abstract landscape miniatures by Annaliese Bischoff South College Gallery The University of Massachusetts Amherst June 2nd through August 31st, 2006 Reception: Friday, June 2nd from 3:006:00pm

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Small WorldsAbstract landscape miniatures

by Annaliese Bischoff

South College GalleryThe University of Massachusetts Amherst

June 2nd through August 31st, 2006Reception: Friday, June 2nd from 3:00‐6:00pm

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Small Worlds Abstract landscape miniatures

An assembly of twenty five miniature abstract landscape paintings comprises the exhibit, “Small Worlds,” created by artist and landscape architect Annaliese Bischoff.  These intimate works express images of archetypal landscapes. 

With characteristic titles such as “Ridgetop,” “Drumlin,” and “Chasm,” familiar landscape associations are suggested in oil oncanvas. The artist captures her strong personal attachment to beloved landscape types. Although no references to specific places are given, there is a strange and powerful sense of familiarity conveyed through these small abstract expressions. The abstract sensory qualities projected through these works, as well as their diminutive scale, promote a kind of familiarity to the proverbial small world.  “By creating a sense of familiarity these works may serve to expand the way we look at the larger world of landscapes in some small way,” Bischoff notes. 

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Artist Statement

“These are first and foremost intimate works. My love of the landscape is transmuted and compressed into the tiniest patch of space I can imagine creating. The expansive nature of the landscape is reduced to the essence of its features.   Still figurative in construction, these abstractions play with color and texture to create a new sense of place…. into which the viewer is drawn. Both the landscape and the viewer are captives in the experience of this intimacy. Originating as oils on raw canvas the edges of the works, irregularly fringed, determine the borders of each view. Prisma color pencil is added to some of the works to layer texture. Illusions of size and space are compacted into this series of two dimensional thumbnail vignettes. In my view the scale is what makes these pieces significant.”

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chasm

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drumlin

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dune

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eddies

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fields

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hills

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inlet

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knoll

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marsh

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ridgetop

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Small WorldsAbstract  landscape  miniatures

By  Annaliese  Bischoff

June 2nd through August 31st, 2006Reception:  Friday, June 2nd from 3:00‐6:00pm

South College GallerySouth College,  second floor

The University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherst MA 01003

Regular Gallery  HoursMonday through Friday  9am to 4pm

Telephone 413 545‐4169

The exhibition was made possible in part with support from the UMass  Arts  Council  and 

the Department of Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning