Enclosure, a solo exhibition by Dana Hargrove featuring all new paintings. Fresh off her two recent artist residences in Iceland and North Carolina, Enclosure will be Hargrove’s fifth exhibition with Bridgette Mayer Gallery. The show title is derived from the 18th and 19th century Enclosure Movement in England, which forcibly privatized public and communal British land. The work in Enclosureexplores our world’s changing landscape in the face of capitalism, industrialization, and environmental threats. Hargrove’s colorful and abstracted landscape paintings blur the distinction between natural and constructed environments. As a Scottish American artist and frequent world traveler, Hargrove is well-attuned to the underlying narratives found in natural and industrialized landscapes globally and over time. She states:

As a female artist working in an historically male-dominated society, I think about how our developed landscape is a product of short-term ambition and not of generational nurture. I find it astounding how far removed we have come from living naturally on this earth, and how we have arrived at a moment where nature has become increasingly simulated. Even the landscapes on my doorstep are ultra-processed, sometimes in strange ways that add back a sprinkle of nature, often striking me with a wry humor. My recent work comments on the ever-widening gulf between nature and culture and the narrowing green belt that protects nature from our sprawl.