North Adams, MA – Lapin Contemporary is pleased to present Nature Interrupted, a new exhibition of drawings by Douglas Gilbert. This series explores the experience of moving through a landscape that feels both familiar and uncertain, where a path emerges not as a fixed destination, but as a space of approach.

Across the works, the viewer is positioned at a threshold, advancing toward something that remains unresolved. Vertical forms line these paths, suggesting trees, structures, or clustered elements of the natural world, yet they resist stable definition. Shifting in scale and proximity, they alternately press forward and recede, creating a tension between openness and compression. These forms act as interruptions, echoing the experience of roads cutting through nature, where the landscape is divided yet continues to grow on either side.

Constructed through the accumulation of thousands of graphite lines, Gilbert’s drawings develop through variations in density rather than traditional modeling. Darker, more compact areas advance toward the viewer, while lighter, more dispersed marks recede, forming spatial fields shaped by memory and perception. Light and dark operate not as descriptive tools, but as experiential elements, reflecting how landscape is remembered rather than directly observed.

While each work stands independently, the exhibition unfolds as a sequence of encounters. Some spaces feel compressed, others more open, yet none are fixed in meaning. The sense of passage persists, but remains unstable, shaped by uncertainty, anticipation, and the possibility of what lies just beyond view.

Rooted in observation yet transformed through abstraction, Gilbert’s drawings are less concerned with depicting a specific place than with holding a feeling. They reflect a meditative engagement with landscape, where form, memory, and perception converge, leaving the image open for each viewer’s experience.

 

LAPINcontemporary is an emerging gallery focused on exhibiting works of art throughout the year with the intention to promote artists and to provide another cultural venue for the community, and for visitors travelling on the path between The Clark Art Institute and Mass MoCA.

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Cristina Barbedo, curator/co-owner

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