Terrains: Mapping the Built and the Felt

Terrains: Mapping the Built and the Felt
Rosenberg Gallery | Goucher College | Baltimore, MD
Feb. 19 – Apr. 2, 2026

Baltimore, MD – Goucher Art Galleries presents Terrains, a two-person exhibition bringing together new paintings by Mark Luthringer and Christy Bergland that probe the architectures—both material and psychological—that organize contemporary life.
Luthringer’s practice originated in an extensive photographic survey of office parks across the United States, a collection now numbering more than seven hundred sites. In this new body of work, he translates those images into painting, a shift that destabilizes the documentary neutrality of the camera. Through controlled color, sharp geometries, and painterly restraint, Luthringer presents corporate landscapes as sites of accidental lyricism and quiet conceptual weight. His office-park façades—designed for maximum anonymity—become charged meditations on late-capitalist aspiration, nostalgia, and the aesthetic residue of bureaucratic decision-making.
In contrast, Christy Bergland turns inward, rendering windows, thresholds, architectural fragments, and constructed box-spaces from her “Context and Experience Series” in an expressionistic palette shaped by her long engagement with transitional states of perception. Her “Mining the Rocks Series” exposes the depth of emotional life in bedrock which emerges as images of storytelling relics which mingle with denizens of the natural world. Bergland’s atmospheric blues, softened edges, and shifting planes evoke the unstable boundary between interior and exterior worlds. Drawing on early experiences of isolation as well as decades of work as an art therapist, she visualizes spaces where emotion, memory, and physical environment coalesce.
By placing these two practices in dialogue, Terrains foregrounds the ways in which the built landscape reflects broader cultural conditions, while the inner landscape reveals how those conditions are absorbed, resisted, or transformed. The exhibition positions both artists as acute observers of environments that are at once familiar and uncanny, suggesting that the spaces we inhabit—corporate, domestic, psychological—are never neutral ground.

Exhibition Details
Opening Reception: February 19, 4-8 PM
Artist Talk: February 19, 6-6:45 PM
Curator’s Tour: February 28, 3:30 PM