The term landscape was first defined as an artist’s glance at a portion of land composed into a painting. It meant the interpretation of a view. It was an artist’s task to turn the spaces, forms, movement and color in front of him (prairies, bushes and trees, live animals, rivers and clouds) into a work of art. Much later, however, the term came to mean the land, the view itself, irrespective of a creator’s artifice. In America, landscape came to mean natural scenery.

Paraphrasing John Brinckerhoff Jackson
From his book Discovering the Vernacular Landscape

The Salina Art Center’s Reception Gallery, presenting a selection of regional landscapes, was designed as part of a dynamic visual conversation between historical and contemporary art which attempts to reveal how images are fashioned, and therefore, how landscape is constructed, lost, and regained.