Layered Landscapes

The Photographic Art of Jenny Okun

Jenny Okun (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2023
Oro Editions (Verlag)
978-1-957183-40-4 (ISBN)

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“Okun has extended her gaze to encompass horticulture and the drama of the natural world, while exploiting the potential of digital photography to create subtler impressions of mountains and ocean, clouds and gardens, foliage and cacti.” — Michael Webb

Layered Landscapes is a collection of essays and photographs of our beautiful world from just outside our homes all the way to the heavens. The book has introductions by Michael Webb (architecture writer) and Craig Krull (gallerist). Craig Krull aptly points out that Okun’s photographs are a “reconstructed harmony into what we believed to be a ‘real’ landscape.” He writes that “her work has always defined the point that landscapes do not exist in nature, but only in our minds.” Okun’s artwork is a mixture of multiple layers that present a memory of the places she has visited on her many travels. The photographs are as poetic as the essays. Griff Rhys Jones (writer, actor, presenter) explores the colour blue. Kathy Lette (author) becomes a cloud on an Australian beach. Thea Musgrave (composer) explains a tempest in musical notes. Tania Compton (garden designer) talks about meadows balancing wild and formal gardens. Caleb Leech (landscape Gardener) writes about medieval gardens. Annie Gatti (garden writer) and Steve Reich (writer and producer) both talk about happiness in gardening. James Forrest (writer) climbs mountains to become calmer. Richard Sparks (writer, director) and Lee Holdridge (Composer) discuss Okun’s projected design for opera. Layered Landscapes is a meditation on our earthly desires.

Jenny Okun is an American artist and filmmaker who travels the world in search of unusual beauty. Her artworks have been shown in more than 60 international exhibitions and in numerous private and public collections. Commissions have included the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Tate Modern, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Craig Krull describes her artwork as “large-scale color photographic abstractions. Okun distils the essential qualities of form, texture, color, and detail into one layered vision.” Her two books, Dreamscapes and Variations, show artworks of architecture, landscape, nudes, and art. Michael Webb (Introduction). Craig Krull (Introduction). All contributors: Griff Rhys Jones, Thea Musgrave, Richard Sparks, Lee Holdridge, Kathy Lette, James Forrest, Annie Gatti, Steven Reich, Caleb Leech, Tania Compton, Gus Christie.

Introductions
Michael Webb 6
Craig Krull 12
Jenny Okun 18
Essays
Griff Rhys Jones 40
Thea Musgrave 45
Richard Sparks 49
Lee Holdridge 50
Kathy Lette 53
James Forrest 54
Annie Gatti 57
Steven Reich 62
Caleb Leech 65
Tania Compton 66
Gus Christie 70
Historical Quotes
Georgia O’Keeffe 81
Maya Angelou 82
Eric Newby 85
Sara Donati 86
Chris Bonnington 89
Pablo Picasso 91
Jules Verne 93
Lord Byron 94
John Muir 98
Edgar Allen Poe 101
William Shakespeare 103
Alberto Giacometti 107
Vincent van Gogh 108
Thomas Jefferson 111
e. e. cummings 112
Lawren Harris 114
Alfred Wainwright 117
Sylvia Plath 118
Langston Hughes 121
Lucien Freud 122
Albert Einstein 125
Arthur C. Clarke 126
Carl Reiner 129
Vladimir Nabokov 131
Marina Warner 133
Charles Dickens 135
Emily Carr 137
Marc Chagall 139
Jenny Okun 140
John Denver 140
Tom Paxton 140
Art and Landscape by Jenny Okun 144
Contributors 154
Acknowledgments 158

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2023
Zusatzinfo	200 Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	San Rafael
Sprache	englisch
Maße	305 x 305 mm
Gewicht	1722 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
ISBN-10	1-957183-40-3 / 1957183403
ISBN-13	978-1-957183-40-4 / 9781957183404
Zustand	Neuware