From the Ground Up: NYC Group Exhibition, Juried by Erika b Hess. Visionary Art Collective is partnering with Warnes Contemporary in New York City to present our annual in-person juried group exhibition, From the Ground Up, curated by Erika b Hess. From the Ground Up: Contemporary Landscape is an exhibition that explores how artists investigate the landscape today. Framed as a point of departure rather than a fixed view, the landscape becomes a jumping off point. From abstracted terrains and constructed environments to fleeting moments of light in plein air, artists engage the landscape to examine perception and how it relates to culture, politics, and memory. By implementing various ways of making such as abstraction, realism, invention and experimental forms, artists turn to the landscape to contemplate and question how we see and what we deem valuable in our surroundings. We invite submissions across all disciplines that engage landscape—urban or rural, real or imagined, material or symbolic to submit their work for consideration. From the Ground Up will be presented at Warnes Contemporary in Brooklyn on April 23, 2026 and will run for approximately six to eight weeks. This exhibition will be actively promoted across social media through Visionary Art Collective and Warnes Contemporary, with all works available on Artsy. In addition, a select number of artists will be featured in New Visionary Magazine.
