I CAN'T GO TO THE OPENING TONIGHT BUT YOU SHOULD!!!!!
Curatorial Statement:
Land-Sc(r)aping: Development, Community, Affect is a group exhibition that examines the concept of “environment” as an interstice between U.S. politics, economy, land ownership, materiality, and its communal and individuated impacts. The double-term of the exhibition title suggests that whenever there is a curatorial effort placed upon land, there is simultaneous consequence. Each artist selected for this exhibition inspects relational conditions between development and human impact/traces, inviting the viewer to consider their own presence and involvement within these larger socio-economic systems. The exhibition, itself, will also grow and change between its opening on May 4th, 2018 and its closing on July 12th: new artworks will be added, the gallery space will shift, and remnants from workshops and lectures will remain in order to actuate development within the gallery. In this way, I hope to produce an organism of an exhibition that may operate as site that, not only collaboratively informs the viewer and participating artists, but also recognizes its own envelopment within a cycle of scaping and scraping land and material and bodies. - Jessica Borusky, Artistic Director of Living Arts
The event is free to the public. Opening May 4th, 2018, at Living Arts of Tulsa.
Participating Artists:
Bill White
Aaron Stephan
Ellen Mueller
Seann Starowitz
Valery Lyman
Nick Pena
Tali Weinberg
Caitlin Horsmon
Blights Out!