SALEM, MA
Beyond Human: Artist–Animal Collaborations featured nearly 40 paintings, installations, photographs and audio and video recordings by artists who co-create or investigate art with live animals. This year-long exhibition marked the opening of the newly redesigned and expanded Art & Nature Center of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA.
ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR
Initiated as a partnership with the Museum of Modern Art in 1953 and established by the U.S. Department of State in 1963, Art in Embassies (AIE) plays a vital role in our nation’s public diplomacy through a culturally expansive mission of temporary exhibitions, permanent collections, artist programming, and publications.
BRONX, NY
10 international, national and local artists make their debut at the Bronx River Art Center in the summer exhibition, Freaks of Nature, asking whether nature can be a successful subject in contemporary art without falling into the conventions of landscape.
NEW YORK, NY
Intrigued by a human desire to find solace in feigned natural environments, Natural Synthetics transforms the forms, colors, and sounds of the natural world into highly immersive experiences.
BALTIMORE, MD
Suggesting the skewed reality and altered consciousness of hallucinations, dreams, and memories, the video installation and paintings look to transport the viewer into highly immersive experiences.
WASHINGTON, DC
Washington Project for the Arts 35th Anniversary Exhibition, curated by J.W. Mahoney.
BALTIMORE, MD
As our culture moves further from the natural world we continue to pull certain elements of it along with us. The more we pull these elements along, the more bizarre their manifestation.
WASHINGTON, DC
Interspecies Transmission focuses on body language, physical traits, and specific characteristics of selected animals as a structure to develop various multimedia works.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Hibernation@81BPM functioned as a collaborative installation and performance featuring DC poet and DJ Robert Bland. The performance, poetry, and music were structured around the heart rhythm of a polar bear during a state of carnivore lethargy, or false hibernation.