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Alison Moritsugu
Proposal for Survive/Thrive/Alive |
Lisa Murch
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Mia Brownell’s interest in the genetic engineering of food led her to a series of paintings that are inspired by Dutch 17th Century still life paintings. She is creating two new paintings based on the forms of a protein and an amino acid string that employ images of grapes and other fruits.
Cristina de Gennaro is working in the gallery regularly to create a multi-layered installation exploring Wave Hill history. Her work addresses cultural and personal memory through association with specific plants. She is painting and collaging directly onto the walls and hanging translucent drawings.
Stephanie Dinkins is creating a site-specific project in the sunroom that involves growing plants in adverse conditions by creating planters made of books, cast-off computer and electronic parts. She’s crafting an environment one looks into and contemplates experiencing.
Kevin Duggan is creating four accordion books of botanical watercolor paintings based on plants found in Albrecht Durer's 1503 masterpiece Der Grosse Rasenstuck (The Great Piece of Earth). Duggan follows the path of these commonplace plants through the present depicting their process of competition and co-evolution. The plants are yarrow, creeping bent, daisy, hound's-tongue, greater plaintain, meadow grass, dandelion, germander speedwell and crow's foot (grass).
In Surviving Paradise, collaborating artists Janet Koenig and Greg Sholette, turn to the Fertile Crescent, to trace plants that have their origin in the cradle of civilization. Their installation alludes to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and to 15th Century Islamic illuminated manuscripts, and calls attention to the human conquests that have shaped and reshaped the natural and cultural history of the Near East.
Algernon Miller has been studying Seneca Village, a thriving village of people of African descent that was displaced to make way for Central Park in the mid-nineteenth century. Working with x-rays and images of artifacts found at the site, his installation chronologically explores the parallel displacement of plants and the people who lived there.
Alison Moritsugu uses decorative painting techniques and wallpaper motifs in an installation in the foyer with imagery based on Hawaiian tropical plants associated with the islands that were introduced from elsewhere. The alcoves will be painted with images of over-grown tropical foliage with “hidden images” of endemic native plants and birds formed by the negative space.
Lisa Murch’s installation is based on four common invasive plants: Japanese knotweed, porcelain berry, hemlock with wooly adelgid and garlic mustard. She recreates their pervasive nature to overtake the elegant spiral stairwell. Her keen interest in botany and her obsessive use of everyday materials join forces in work that mimics the transformation invasives bring to bear on the environment.
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Public Programs
April 1, 2, 1pm
Meet the Artists, tour the exhibit with artists and curators.
April 29, 30, 1-4pm
Family Art Project, Planter Surprises/Un sorpresivo matero: Join artist Stephanie Dinkins to make a planter from recycled materials such as newspapers, old shoes and soda bottles. Plant seeds, take it home and watch them grow.
May 21, 2pm
Behind-the-Scenes of an Exhibition, a discussion with artist Maureen Connor, curators Jennifer McGregor and Erica Strongin, and respondent Ingrid Schaffner, Senior Curator, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania.
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