Beyond the Horizon
TECHNE is proud to present Material World, a group show curated by Chuck Thomas and Jason Clay Lewis featuring artists Erik Benson, Chris Coffin, Esperanza Cortés, Jaynie Gillman Crimmins, Sam Heydt, Seren Morey, David Opdyke, Ami Park, Kristen Schiele, Sato Yamamoto.
The horizon is the apparent line that separates the surface of a celestial body from its sky when viewed from the perspective of an observer on or near the surface of the relevant body. This line divides all viewing directions based on whether it intersects the relevant body's surface or not.
The true horizon is a theoretical line, which can only be observed to any degree of accuracy when it lies along a relatively smooth surface such as that of Earth's oceans. At many locations, this line is obscured by terrain, and on Earth it can also be obscured by life forms such as trees and/or human constructs such as buildings. The resulting intersection of such obstructions with the sky is called the visible horizon. On Earth, when looking at a sea from a shore, the part of the sea closest to the horizon is called the offing.
In many contexts, especially perspective drawing, the curvature of the Earth is disregarded and the horizon is considered the theoretical line to which points on any horizontal plane converge (when projected onto the picture plane) as their distance from the observer increases. For observers near sea level, the difference between this geometrical horizon (which assumes a perfectly flat, infinite ground plane) and the true horizon (which assumes a spherical Earth surface) is imperceptible to the unaided eye. However, for someone on a 1000-meter hill looking out across the sea, the true horizon will be about a degree below a horizontal line.
TECHNE is an artist-run gallery in Oceanside, San Diego that amplifies the voices of committed artists working in diverse media from around the world. With one of the most impressive exhibition spaces in North County, TECHNE has quickly become one of most dynamic art destinations in the greater San Diego area.
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