News: Karen Gunderson Artwork Acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston

Karen Gunderson, Approaching High Water, 2022. Oil on Linen, 82 by 82 inches. Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund.

By WM January 22, 2024

The artwork is included in Contested Landscapes, an ongoing group exhibition. 

From the press release: 

Contested Landscapes brings together works of art that reexamine the traditional genre of landscape through an ecological lens. By using diverse materials and innovative techniques, the artists reshape representations of geography, topography, and the environment to examine human interaction with the natural world. Among the artists featured are Radcliffe Bailey, Teresita Fernández, Karen Gunderson, Richard Long, Soledad Salamé, and Jennifer Trask. In their works, landscapes become contested sites of power, addressing cultural and environmental concerns. WM