Press for Landscape with Bombers

Bucolic Battlegrounds

Written by Lori Callaghan
Published in Rover: Montreal Arts Uncovered, September 22, 2009

"Muddy, confusing and ominous, the war images in Amy-Claire Huestis’s latest exhibit Landscape with Bombers are an examination of the intrusion of battle on the pastoral. These are not the fields where generals clash or trenches are yet to be dug; this is where the forces of combat push back the barriers of common life to make room for warfare. It is a look at calamity in the making.(...)"

See complete text: http://roverarts.com/2009/09/bucolic-battlegrounds/

Related Exhibition: Landscape with Bombers
Related Artists: Amy-Claire Huestis