Americana Landscape
Parts Peculiar555 Sutter Street, #305, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Group Exhibition, 2025
Curated by Victor Saucedo.
Opening Reception: Exhibition dates: June 11 - july 11, 2025
Opening Reception: July 11, 2025 6-10pm
John, Ailee. "Americana Landscape." Myth of the West - Substack, 11 July 2025. https://mythofthewest.substack.com/p/americana-landscape
“I grew up surrounded by the aesthetic of Americana—not through museums or academic study, but while cleaning homes. As a kid, I helped my family clean houses, many belonging to veterans. They were often filled with wood-burned quotes about freedom, flags in every room, glass eagles, military medals. These objects formed a language: one of pride, patriotism, and personal mythology. For years, I absorbed these symbols without question. This exhibition is me asking that question now.
What could Americana be if reimagined twenty years from now—not through nostalgia, but through the eyes of those historically left out of the frame? What values would it reflect if shaped by those who’ve labored quietly beneath its banner?
Americana Landscape brings together artists who reshape the textures and myths of American identity. Through painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed media, the show leans into abstraction—not to obscure meaning, but to stretch and reimagine it. Across the works, there’s a sense of holding on—capturing fleeting moments, inherited memories, and cultural echoes before they fade.
Catherine Wang McMahon’s Scorched Amazon: Cattle, Soy and Capital, painted with earth pigments made from bark, stone, and charcoal, maps the quiet violence of American capital—tracing how retirement accounts fund ecological collapse in Brazil.”
-Victor Saucedo