A younger generation of painters today is preoccupied with fantasies of the landscape sublime. It's a landscape that lies beyond the bounds of metropolitan space, and yet, unlike the Arcadian motifs it often recalls, it points to an inchoate history, intimating multiple possible futures as much as alternative pasts, whilst drawing attention to the medium from which that image emerges. Modernism's bygone archi - tecture, near - future ruins and vegetal or organic incursions make up the visual vocabulary for a terrain staked out with ever greater clarity by artists working in painting and drawing, drawn to the paradoxically seductive imaginative space that the fictive landscape can propose , by Jacob Lawrence --ar 3:4 --style raw --v 6.0