Opening Reception: September 2, 2023 (3-5pm)
Closing Reception: September 23, 2023 (3-5pm)
Mountain Have Your Back, 2021-2023, painted paper, transparency, ink, collage on museum mat, 8” x 10.5”
Juried by Dominque Mazeaud
Some Kind of Nature is the title of the ninth track on the British virtual band Gorillaz’ 2010 album “Plastic Beach,” and the point of departure for this gathering of artists from across the United States, Canada and Europe. As we have entered the Anthropocene, with human impacts being the dominant force of our changing climate, this exhibition presents the role artists can play in having conversations about how humans are affecting planetary species survival for generations to come.
Some kind of nature, Some kind of soul, Come from within us, Oh Lord, forgive me, Some kind of mixture, Some kind of gold, It’s got to come and find us, All we are is dust (final chorus)
Topics addressed include glacial melt, sea level rise, water quality, water displacement, dewatering, bogs, trees and rivers, forests, the forest floor, wildfires, soil, air, mycorrhiza, decomposition, the value of plants, desert plants, seeds, plastics, anthropomorphic perspectives, and rebirth.
About Juror
Mazeaud is an artist and curator of the "spiritual in art" as written about in Suzi Gablik's The Reenchantment of Art, in 1991, which included her performative project The Great Cleansing of the Rio Grande (1987-1994). Mazeaud curated Revered Earth, in 1990, for the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, including Helen and Newton Harrison, Lenore Tawney, Alan Sonfist, Ana Mendieta, Michelle Stuart, Betsy Damon and more. Her self-published memoir examines forty years of her ritual performances and installations titled The Heartist's Secret (2022). Mazeaud has lived and worked in Santa Fe since 1987. www.earthheartist.net
Artists arebased in New Mexico, Arizona, California, Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, Missouri, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Canada and Greece, andinclude:
Moira Bateman, Joan Baron, David Cass, Shirley Crow, Rosalyn Driscoll, Jeanne Dunn, Kelly Eckel, Holly Fay, Bia Gayotto, Karen Hackenberg, Perri Lynch Howard, Stacy Levy, Nancy Macko, Aline Mare, Claire McConaughy, Anna Mein, Mary Meyer, Meredith Nemirov, Lil Olive, Erika Osborne, Catherine Ruane, and Beth Ames Swartz.
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