"...In Reclamation, accomplished American artist Curtis Bartone presents us with a collection of recent works consisting of 18 masterfully executed etchings and lithographs. The works comprise narratives that offer astute and often tense juxtapositions of nature's flora and fauna with manufactured human artifice. While some works uncover a sense of beauty in this apparent disharmony, a tense and foreboding sense of loss underscores his work, highlighting that wilderness has changed from being a real pristine place to a kind of distorted fiction.Through the works presented in Reclamation, Bartone encourages us to consider difficult questions about our apparent biased and arbitrary classifications of nature that drive our efforts to exert control over it in an attempt to fit the natural world into a human-centered paradigm..."
– excerpt from Curtis Bartone: Reclamation – exhibition essay by Tracy Wormsbecker
