Join us at Alto Gallery Saturday, June 17, 2023, 12 - 4 PM for the opening reception of Landscape Reconstructed, featuring works by Libby Barbee. Presented in conjunction with a Satellite Saturday event (co-presented by Alto Gallery and RedLine, sponsored by RiNo Arts District) featuring a mini piñata-making demo/activity with Koko Bayer and open studios with satellite studio artists. Free event and refreshments.

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Through various media and forms, my artwork explores the contemporary political and social implications of American frontier myth, and imagines the western landscape as both a culture-defining myth and as a thoroughly domesticated and culturally constructed space.  Landscape Reconstructed presents a selection of collage-based artworks created over the last decade that deconstruct and reconstruct images of landscape, exploring themes of human manipulation of the natural world, myth, and American ideology. Many of the artworks presented here are constructed using satellite photographs of Earth created by…