Artists Meredith Laura Lynn and Katie Hargrave are presenting a multimedia installation that examines historical, cultural and environmental influences on government‑managed public lands. The work, titled Bad Outdoorsmen (Application Video) (Northeast Florida) and created in 2024, uses video, installation and hand‑sewn ghillie suits to critique romanticized outdoor experiences through the lens of reality television and social media.
The gallery features five monitors playing synchronously, showing shifting landscapes, atmospheric skies, still lifes and portraits that evoke the maritime oak hammocks, scrubs and pine flatwoods of Northeast Florida. In the first vignette the artists address the camera as if filming an audition tape for the History Channel series Alone, discussing their choice of locations and their suitability as participants despite being women and urban artists. Their narrative references the 18th‑ and 19th‑century naturalists William Bartram Jr., John Muir and John James Audubon, noting Bartram’s 1765 commission by King George III, his 1774 expedition, Audubon’s 1837 stay at Mala Campra in Palm Coast and Muir’s one thousand mile walk along an abandoned railroad track in 1867. The installation weaves these historical details into a contemporary discourse on wilderness narratives.
Press release issued by Orlando Museum of Art:
https://omart.org/news/together-into-the-wild/
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