ANTI-PASTORAL
Dan Ward, Texte zur Kunst
June 2021
From the seat of an airplane or through the lens of a drone the use and distribution of land becomes plainly legible. It is a decidedly contemporary perspective and, in the genealogy of landscape painting, a novel one. Carol Rhodes’s landscapes assume this position, zooming in on patchworks of land bisected and delineated by roads and looping highways and interrupted by industrial infrastructure. As artist and writer Dan Ward writes here, Rhodes’s scenes are stubbornly aerial, and each work surveys and indexes the particular components of an ambiguous, historically temporary process: landscape painting in late capitalism. […]