NEW YORK.- The Whitney Museum of American Art presents Political Nature, on view December 2, 2004 – March 27, 2005 at the Ames Family Gallery, Floor 5. There is a rich artistic heritage in the use of nature as a metaphor to reflect and comment on mankind-- on our psychological and moral makeup, our cultural and scientific achievements, and our interactions with the natural world itself. Political Nature presents works on paper by four contemporary artists-- Walton Ford, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Frank Moore, and Stephanie Syjuco -- and looks at the ways in which they manipulate and expand upon this tradition.