Regina Scully's Japanese Landscape: Inner Journeys

It wasn't until artist Regina Scully had the opportunity to closely explore the New Orleans Museum of Art's collection of Japanese paintings that she realized the parallels between the art she was creating, and Chinese and Japanese antecedents. In Regina Scully's new exhibition, Japanese Landscape: Inner Journeys, on display through October 8, paintings from throughout Scully’s career are presented with a selection of Japanese works from NOMA’s renowned permanent collection, highlighting the apparent, yet unintentional, stylistic coincidences between the American artist and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Asian art. Inner Journeys features works that span Scully’s career, from early oil sketches to selections from later series, which explore geographic and psychological space, and grapples with new forms of space, to new works created during the period of Scully’s more active engagement with Japanese painting. Paired with art from Japan’s dynamic Edo Period, the works provoke close scrutiny, invite conversation, and reveal the complex intersections of the present and the past, space and perspective, and the abstract and the representational. (504) 658-4100 or noma.org.