Metroscapes: Suburban Landscapes of the Twin Cities and Beyond presents
the work of eight photographers and two videographers from the Twin Cities who have
taken the suburban landscape as a central subject. Working independently of each other
from the early 1980s to the present, these artists have varied attitudes about suburbia.
Some document it quite neutrally, others with a sense of critique.
This exhibition offers the opportunity to see the landscape of suburbia from a standstill
rather than through a car window. In the context of American photography,
their work asserts that our national landscape is now suburbia, not western wilderness,
or city scenes, or small-town AmericaÑthe more commonly photographed landscapes from the
19th century through 1970.
