TELFAIR 2022 draft

In this body of work, I explore Wilderness in the form of recalled and imagined landscape in order to acknowledge both its inherent power and remarkable fragility. Statistics indicate that only one quarter of the Earth’s terrestrial surface is covered by wilderness or land areas not significantly modified by human activity. Today, we know that all our activities impact even the most distant regions of this planet, so perhaps Wilderness only exists in our memories or on a canvas. My recent work is informed by visits to active volcanoes, locations where tectonic plates meet and earthquakes occur daily, the solitary Arctic and Antarctic regions, and isolated areas in Africa. I am currently doing research on shifting rivers and coastlines and their impact on the edges of the lands they border. Ultimately, I am fascinated by the subjectivity of perception and the power of memory to anchor our place in the world.

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC Barclay’s Beck’s Beer Brauerei Beck & Company Cablevision The Chubb Group City of Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office Deloitte Touche Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. The Federal Reserve Bank General Electric Corporation The Grand America Hotel Hudson River Museum The Huntington Museum of Art Invenergy Katten Muchin Rosenman L.L.P. Marquard Bank Mastercard Corporation Medicis Corporation Metropolitan Life

Published on the occasion of the exhibition

TULA TELFAIR Wildnerness Does Not Locate Itself October 29 – December 24, 2022

Jerald Melberg Gallery Inc. 625 South Sharon Amity Road Charlotte, NC 28211 704.365.3000 gallery@jeraldmelberg.com www.jeraldmelberg.com

Photography by Tula Telfair and Paul Horton Graphic Design by Gaybe Johnson

The Millbrook School Moore College of Art NBC Universal The New Orleans Museum of Art Omni Hotels Redding Art Museum

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-Tula Telfair

Ruth Chenvin Foundation Seven Bridges Foundation Syracuse University Trenton State College U.S. Department of State Vlasic Corporation Wesleyan University