Gary Arndt (St Paul, MN, United States) is an artist who mainly works with drawing. By exploring the concept of landscapes in a nostalgic way, Gary works to establish a link between the landscape's reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. He tries to increase the dynamic between audience and artist by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations. His works never shows the complete structure or reality. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality.
Gary investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape or a drawing means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination. His drawings have a realistic yet magical feel about them.
