Life on Land
01.30.2026 - 03.14.2026
The Emily & Todd Voth Artspace is pleased to present Life on Land, the third exhibition in a trilogy that reconsiders landscape through artistic practice, cultural memory, and lived experience.
Opening with a public reception and sound experience on Friday, January 30, 2026, from 6–8 pm, Life on Land brings together works by Teresa Baker, Dawoud Bey, Yoan Capote, Sky Hopinka, Carlos Rolon, and Paul Rudy. Through photography, film, drawing, textiles, painting, and sound, the exhibition explores how landscape is shaped by history, embodiment, and the archive, offering new ways of understanding place as a site of memory, narrative, and ongoing cultural exchange.
Taking inspiration from shifting art histories and the cultural force of artists who expand how we understand landscape, the Artspace has organized a constellation of exhibitions that reconsider landscape as both subject and method. Together, these projects unfold new narratives and deepen our understanding of how meaning is shaped through depictions and evocations of the physical environment.
Finding Ground | 2023
Finding Ground offered a focused exploration of prairie ecologies, meditating on the past, present, and future of this distinctive ecosystem. Featuring the work of six artists—Julie Farstad, Cathleen Faubert, Philip Heying, Mitch Iburg, Cyan Meeks, and Erin Wiersma—the exhibition emphasized close observation and artistic practices rooted in working directly in and with the land, revealing the living, shifting ecologies of landscapes both chosen and inhabited.
Material World | 2024
Material World foregrounded the interconnectedness of landscape and artistic practice through a dynamic group exhibition. The exhibition presented a wide range of conceptual and material approaches that draw inspiration—and materials—directly from the natural world, celebrating the many ways land is understood, honored, and transformed through artmaking.
As the third exhibition in this trilogy, Life on Land turns toward cultural narratives, histories, and documents of lived experience that shape contemporary understandings of place and inform our expectations of landscape.
Life on Land
Life on Land introduces encounters with six artists – Teresa Baker, Dawoud Bey, Yoan Capote, Sky Hopinka, Carlos Rolón, and Paul Rudy – who explore hidden or invisible truths, reimagine exile through abstraction, and evidence the archive of lived experience through innovative approaches to documentation.
Life on Land is organized by Raechell Smith, Director and Curator, Emily & Todd Voth Artspace.
The Artspace is grateful to the passionate collectors and lenders whose generous support of these artists help make this exhibition possible: Uncrated Art Foundation (Bill and Christy Gautreaux), Kansas City, MO; Collection of Joanna Bush, Los Angeles, CA; J. Vasa Family Collection, Los Angeles, CA; and Sean Kelly, New York/Los Angeles. Special thanks to Gia Canali Art Advisor and De Boer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Chris Nelson at Sky Hopinka Studio; Bill Brase, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY; Hexton Gallery, Aspen, CO; and Tanya Leighton Gallery Los Angeles/Berlin for their logistical support.
Listening to the Land
Opening Reception
Friday, January 30
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Listening to the Land, a series of artist-led encounters that extend the themes of the exhibition through embodied engagement with sound and place. Designed as a set of experiential programs, the series invites participants to attune to landscape through listening, movement, and shared observation.
Inspired by the exhibition, the program includes a sound activation created by composer, musician, and land steward Paul Rudy; an evening of film organized by artist and film scholar Caitlin Horsmon; and a range of field-based experiences, including artist-led walks. Highlights include a guided listening walk with land artist and environmentalist Karen McCoy, and a visit to the KU Field Station to experience Here-ing, a land art installation by Janine Antoni, created in partnership with the Spencer Museum of Art. Together, these encounters offer expanded ways of understanding landscape as something heard, felt, and experienced over time.
Time Seeds: A Prairie Cosmogram, immersive, multi-channel sound performance by Dr. Paul Rudy, Curators’ Distinguished Professor and Coordinator of Composition at the UMKC Conservatory.
More information on this series will be published on the Artspace website and social media.