 – Slated to open on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at the KHN Center for the Arts, “Irrational Geographics: Paintings and Works on Paper” by Garry B.…){kind=link}
NEBRASKA CITY, NE (PNAN) – Slated to open on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at the KHN Center for the Arts, “Irrational Geographics: Paintings and Works on Paper” by Garry B. Noland is a play on National Geographic. The show centers on the materials used as the basis for the work.
Artist Noland writes, “We had a stack of them in the corner of my boyhood home. It was how my mom, and I, went places. Many of the works in the show are on pages from the journal. Others are found and re-used prints found in thrift stores and garage sales. These papers often depicted idealized images of mid-century America.”
Chicago artist and gallerist Jean Alexander Frater wrote about Noland’s 2026 Spring Chicago exhibit, “Loot Box” – “Irrational Geographics: Paintings and Works on Paper takes its cue from Noland’s own articulation of art’s role: to find the mundane in the grand and the grand in the mundane. The work is neither modest nor monumental. It occupies the charged, uncomfortable space between those two conditions, which is precisely where the most interesting looking happens.”
Further expressed by Noland, “Some of the prints were published by the United States Department of Agriculture in the mid-1960s; the so-called good old days. As we know they weren’t good for everyone. It is part of my job to step in and reexamine what these pictures meant and what they mean now. It occupies the charged, uncomfortable space between those two conditions, which is precisely where the most interesting looking happens.”
A Gallery Talk is on Thursday, October 15 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm, and the exhibit runs through October 22, 2026.