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What does it mean to hang a landscape painting over the mantelpiece? It’s a question collaborative artists Charlie Castanada and Brody Reiman have been asking themselves for more than 20 years. Since graduating from Carnegie Mellon (where they met before earning an MFA as a duo at UC Davis in 1994), they’ve built conceptually rich sculptural works from everyday construction materials: plywood, plaster, concrete, drywall and tinted drywall “mud”. Whether piled on floors, spread across walls, or presented as wall-mounted “paintings”, their category-resistant works share one thing in common: an obsession with the aesthetics and domestic uses of thrift-store landscapes – a low-brow genre that puts them in dialog with the historic sources of such works: the Hudson River School painters and others of similar ilk.
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