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TREAD: MEG ROUSSOS
curated by Heather Snider
August 2 - September 30, 2023
Exhibition Statement
Meg Roussos’ photo-based art practice investigates what it means to physically experience the landscape. Cultivated from 10 years spent exploring the wilderness – she has hiked over 8,000 miles and completed three major U.S. long distance hiking trails – her work queries the landscape and her place within it. Roussos uses photography in the traditional sense to yield a picture, and also as a means to document her site-responsive installations and performances. Her work readily blurs documentation with fantasy and allows for a playful humor amidst the exigencies wrought by climate change.
The exhibition includes both black and white and color photographs, video, artist books, and excerpts of personal writing from trail registers.
Installation Photos
#treadoutside
video installation
THE ARTIST
Meg Roussos’ photo-based art practice investigates what it means to physically experience the landscape. Cultivated from 10 years spent exploring the wilderness – she has hiked over 8,000 miles and completed three major U.S. long distance hiking trails – her work queries the landscape and her place within it. Roussos uses photography in the traditional sense to yield a picture, and also as a means to document her site-responsive installations and performances. Her work readily blurs documentation with fantasy and allows for a playful humor amidst the exigencies wrought by climate change. While excavating the contradictions in our mediated experience of nature, Roussos maintains a deeply romantic belief in our spiritual connection with the natural environment and the possibility for beauty and hope to prevail.
Meg Roussos (b.1990) was raised in Southern Ohio and has lived in Seattle, WA since 2020. She was introduced to photography when she assembled a homemade darkroom with her dad during her high school years and went on to earn a B.S. in Photojournalism from Ohio University and an MFA in Studio Art from East Tennessee State University. She was recently an artist-in-residence at MJR Projects in Bainbridge Island, WA (2021), Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass, CO, (2021) and will take part in The Arctic Circle Residency expedition in 2024.
THE CURATOR
Heather Snider is a curator, writer, musician, and fundraiser with 30 years of experience in the arts field. She has written about photography extensively for national and international publications and curated exhibitions in the US, China, and South Africa. Heather is currently working with the Institutional Advancement team at the Exploratorium and has previously served as director of PhotoAlliance, SF Camerawork, Scott Nichols Gallery, and Vision Gallery. She is a trustee of the Center for Photographic Art (Carmel), and has served on the boards of SF Camerawork, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Chinese Immersion School (SF), and Chinese Artist Network.