This gallery features modern and contemporary paintings, photographs, video art, and digital art that relate to humanity’s use of and interaction with the environment. The phrase “land use” describes how humans use land for various economic and cultural endeavors, including agricultural, residential, industrial, mining, and recreational purposes. Wide-ranging in style, all of the artworks in this installation revolve around the idea of land use, some more literally than others. While a few of the more traditional landscapes in this gallery depict the common land use of farming, others instead touch on the environmental consequences of certain agricultural practices, energy production from nature, ways that humanity has physically transformed land in the past, and Environmental Art.
Image Credit: Alexandre Hogue, Soil and Subsoil, 1946, oil on canvas, 36 x 52 in., Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Museum purchase with matching funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1971.027, © Olivia Hogue Marino & Amalia Marino, Image by Google
