· John Bankston’s drawings and painting of a pirate adventure set on the sea and shore act out a narrative using coloring book-type panels.

· Miriam Bäckström photographs film sets showing the literal rough edges of the “scenery”.

· Francis Baker’s photographs show plant life forced into molds that become kitschy forms, such as a Buddha figurine or a Barbie Doll, to comment on society’s impact on natural courses.

· Rebeca Bollinger makes thumbnail drawings of natural elements as they appeared in a web search.

· Jim Christensen is the subject in many of his drawings of scenes from his Southern childhood.

· Viola Frey’s densely painted garden scene perfectly captures the bleaching, fractured sun light of an afternoon in the Sacramento Valley of California.

· Doug Hall’s photo of a highway shows a vista familiar to drivers heading West.

· Matthias Hoch’s photograph depicts a stark urban fountain in Belgium.

· Candida Höfer photographs man-made habitats for zoo animals that mimic nature or leave if out altogether.

· Bill Jacobson’s fuzzy photograph reduces the natural landscape to a color field that appear to be a painting.

· Stefan Kürten’s small painting catalogues landscape details in an effort to control the uncontrollable.

· Sang Lee’s eerie color photographs of neighborhoods at night suggest a depth and intensity belied by the conventions of home and hearth.

· Hung Liu’s lush canvas refers to both photography and Chinese bird and flower paintings in its depiction of a wading person and a wading bird.

· Chip Lord’s photo diptych pairs a contemporary urban scene overlaid with a scene from Vertigo and the Vogue Theater in San Francisco.

· Tracey Moffatt’s photo litho features a babe in the woods taunted by terrifying trees as she runs along.

· Martin Mull’s painting turns the concept of safe suburban life on its ear.

· Vik Muniz makes models of famous earthworks then photographs them blurring the line between fact and fantasy.

· Irene Pijoan’s cut-out metal wall pieces show dense groupings of different plant species.

· Paul Seawright’s photograph of docks show very little water and a lot of human impact on the coastal environment.

· Henry Wessel’s photograph shows the grim remains of nature in an abandoned urban area.

· Sandra Wong’s drawing of a ranch house floating on an isolated white ground provides for a springboard of associations.