From Here to the Horizon: Photographs in Honor of Barry Lopez explores our connection to the land through photography. The exhibition brings together more than ninety photographs by fifty artists, offering a sweeping portrait of the diverse landscapes that shape our lives and imaginations. From badlands and sandhills to old-growth forests and slot canyons, from the New England coast to the Great Lakes, the photographs evoke the distinctive character of American topography—at once quotidian and mythic, welcoming and forbidding. Collectively, the exhibition explores the power of place and the ways photographs help us see, understand, and re-connect with the land.

Featured artists include Robert Adams, Virginia Beahan, Barbara Bosworth, Lois Conner, Linda Connor, Terry Evans, Frank Gohlke, Emmet Gowin, David T. Hanson, Alex Harris, Ron Jude, Mark Klett, Laura McPhee, Mary Peck, Edward Ranney, Mark Ruwedel, Joel Sternfeld, Bob Thall, and Geoff Winningham, among others. While recent photographic traditions have often centered on the human-altered landscape, these photographers also embrace the lyricism, elegance, and resilience of the natural world itself. Their images trace a collective geography of home, memory, and imagination.

From Here to the Horizon was inspired by the work of American author Barry Lopez (1945–2020), best known for Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape (1986), for which he won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. Lopez spent more than fifty years traveling the world and writing about the deep ties between people and nature.

Spring Reception
Saturday, April 11, 3-6pm
Free and open to the public