Landscape paintings take a different perspective

This month’s featured artist at the Community fine Arts Center is Lander artist Virginia Moore.

The show is currently on display with a closing reception scheduled for Aug. 29 from 2-4 p.m.

Moore’s work in her series “As Above, So Below” uses a new perspective on landscape painting as a way of exploring human’s relationship with the environment.

Rather than presenting the landscape from a traditional ground-based perspective, these works flatten the world into a pattern of shapes and colors by looking directly down at the earth’s crust. Feelings of romanticism and sentimentality normally assoc...