The Parrish Art Museum and The Flaf Art Foundation are pleased to present Until the moon comes over the mountain, a two-part exhibition that considers material and conceptual approaches to engaging with landscape. While thematically and curatorially related, each exhibition will address a variety of formal, personal, and political concerns that play out across their respective spaces in Manhattan and Long Island’s East End.

Until the moon comes over the mountain at the Parrish focuses on formal explorations rooted in natural materials. Working with substances gleaned from the earth—including minerals, fiber, and plant matter—these artists eschew pictorial depictions of land, turning instead to abstraction to examine personal and collective attachments to place. What emerges through line, form, color, and materiality are not literal landscapes, but meditations on memory, sensory experience, and the layered histories of land.

Dating from the 1990s to the present, the works range from the gestural abstractions of Sonya Kelliher-Combs’ hide paintings—in which she shaves marks directly into animal furs sourced from her homeland in Alaska—to the geometric forms of Christine Howard Sandoval’s adobe mud drawings that reference colonial Spanish mission architectures in California. Dan Colen’s crushed flower petal paintings evoke the all-over compositions of mid-century Abstract Expressionists, while sculptures by Wolfgang Laib, Delcy Morelos, and Meg Webster explore histories of minimalism through materials like milk, jute, and salt. The exhibition’s title is drawn from a 1994 text-based work by conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner. Printed in vinyl and presented on the Parrish façade, the work suggests dramatic natural forms simply through the function of language, allowing the phrase to be both literal and abstract.

The presentation at the Parrish features work by Dan Colen (American, b. 1979), N. Dash (American, b. 1980), Andy Goldsworthy (British, b. 1965), Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Iñupiaq and Athabascan, b. 1969), Wolfgang Laib (German, b. 1950), Richard Long (British, b. 1945), Delcy Morelos (Colombian, b. 1967), Jonathan Sánchez Noa (Cuban-American, b. 1994), Martin Puryear (American, b. 1941), Eric-Paul Riege (Diné, b. 1994), Christine Howard Sandoval (Chalon Ohlone, b. 1975), Michelle Stuart (American, b. 1933), Martha Tuttle (American, b. 1989), Meg Webster (American, b.1944), and Lawrence Weiner (American, 1942–2021).