Due to restrictions of non University personnel on the University of Puget Sound campus, the following event has been
Canceled
Fruit
&
Gathered from the Field:
Art Provoked by Climate Research
Exhibition Dates: March 9 – April 18, 2020 (closed March 14-22)
Reception and Art+Sci Salon for “Gathered from the Field”: March 26, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Postponed
Reception and Artist Talk for “Fruit”: March 31 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Two shows open at Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound on March 9th. Fruit by Liss LaFleur uses sculptures and video, some made at the Museum of Glass, to confront the “fruit machine,” a military device used in the Cold War to detect and purge LGBT individuals. Gathered from the Field: Art Provoked by Climate Research by Anna McKee and Suze Woolf creates beautiful artwork from scientific data on our changing world. All three artists use evidence from the past to fill their work with meaning, construct beauty, and examine the present.
LaFleur produces work at the intersection of art, technology, and Future Feminism. For this show, she produced blown glass fruits, based on research of the use of anthropometry and fruit to feminize, criminalize, and sexualize the body. Test questions sing out through the space. The audio comes from the declassified report on the polygraph-like “Fruit Machine” and is paired with video of a “Boi with a Fruit Basket.”
McKee’s piece WAIS Reliquary: 68,000 Years is built from 3405 glass ampules sewn to 678 silk panels creating a subtly swaying wave form. Shifting hues hint at untold levels of information and a deep measure of time. Though abstract, the installation’s form is the expression of 68,000 years of temperature history from an ice sheet. Composer/sound artist Steve Peters created a multi-channel sound piece, taken from recordings of the reliquary ampules. Steve makes music and sound for many contexts and occasions using environmental recordings, found/natural objects, electronics, acoustic instruments, and voices.
Woolf presents dozens of artist books made from and about beetle-killed trees and climate change impacts on Northwest forests. As she says, “Hiking through forests burned and yet to burn, I observe the hieroglyphic “scribing” of bark beetles on inner bark and wood. The winding marks seem like a script I cannot read, as if their trails (called "galleries") are cryptograms we fail to decipher. A book, loosely defined, is a collection of messages, and incorporating raw materials from nature becomes a meditation on those materials’ disturbing beauty, as well as an opportunity to learn.”
Kittredge Gallery is open Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturdays
noon to 5 p.m. Free and open to the public. Closed during university holidays.