Who Owns This Land

Iceland’s wondrous hot springs and geysers include signs asking tourists to resist the damaging and uniquely human urge to toss coins at them for good luck. “Nature does not care about your money,” we are reminded. It is a simple truth, one that hits our fragile egos like a slap in the face. Things we want to assign value or meaning to are reduced to folly in front of, say, a massive waterfall surging 500,000 gallons of water per second into an abyss. Once you accept the fact of nature’s cold indifference to humans, you are ready to experience the heart-pounding awe of Tula Telfair’s paintings. Hirschl & Adler Modern is pleased to present Tula Telfair: Who Owns This Land, our first solo exhibition of the artist’s work. The show features more than a dozen new paintings exploring the human condition through our ongoing and complicated relationship with the land. The figure is not needed he