Brittany Byrne

Frontiers (2017-2019)
Category: Art
Medium: Photography

Frontiers explores landscapes, borders, boundaries—the frontiers of nature photography and the natural imagination. In the age of social media, everyone with a phone can become a photographer, and anyone who has the internet can become the next nature photographer extraordinaire (but make sure you’ve got the best presets, first). Instagram is the new digital museum, and we’re all competing for the top spot. It’s a cycle of post, screenshot, share. It’s the social media wheel of fortune. Landscapes become silly putty for the internet. Frontiers, by artist Brittany Byrne, is a visual study of our new distorted landscape, and the magic trick of color. Onward, to new frontiers.

“Black and white leads to abstraction, color is pure concreteness.” - László Moholy-Nagy

The installation images include selected pieces from Frontiers for an undergraduate installation by Brittany Byrne in a private show.

Summer 2017