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Chambliss Giobbi at 101/EXHIBIT in Los Angeles through 25 March 2017. A Naturalist fantasy, “Arcadia” is meticulously realized through mobile sculpture and photo-collage. From an art historical perspective, Giobbi references the utopian visions of Hudson River School painters like Frederick Edwin Church or Thomas Cole, but he is aesthetically more in line with the sublime visuals brought on by an MDMA serotonin surge. The artistic experience is a self-referential orchestration of an untouched landscape; nature as we imagine it would be without all that has ever threatened it. MORE