A Far Off Theater is a collaboration between Dodd MFA Candidate Landon McKinley and visual artist Maria Noel. This body of work investigates the process of removal and obfuscation. Through  painting and photography, these artists collaboratively fabulate a series of fragmented narratives about a world saturated in perpetual information, isolation, and dusk. Swaths of rich shadow in prints and paintings bring into focus small glimmers of recognizable images sequenced together. The stories which emerge from said images are theater-like movements which speak to  a world fraught with false connectivity and shreds of hyperreality. Ultimately, the artists shed light on the many day-to-day moments we exist within, finding a poignant similarity between this stage-like spotlighting and the uncertain wandering of a landscape at dusk.

Maria Canzano is an artist from Detroit, Michigan. She is currently based in Athens, Georgia and received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Maria has exhibited in the US and abroad, including the Royal Watercolour Open 2022 in London, UK and her solo exhibition at the MICA Meyerhoff Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland.

Landon McKinley is a visual artist and writer from Mardela Springs, MD. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019, and now resides in Athens, Georgia. Landon has had work previously published by Dinner Bell Magazine, Joyland Magazine, Humble Arts Foundation, and Fotofilmic JRNL.

Gallery
Bridge Gallery
Exhibition Duration
August 29, 2024 - September 26, 2024