Wedding of the Waters
August 14 - September 26, 2020
John Opera, Blinds III, 2014. Chemically altered cyanotype on stretched linen, 48 x 34 inches. Courtesy of the artist and DOCUMENT, Chicago.
Wedding of the Waters is a group exhibition that considers the joining of waters, and in particular the meeting of two crucial waterways in North America – Lake Erie and the Hudson River – as a metaphor for the places where art and life meet. The wedding of the Erie and the Hudson speaks to the latent power that lurks in the everyday world, the very waters that lap at our feet, creating a dynamic tension of invisible forces around us which reshape our environment. Most objects, whether considered art or not, exist as intimate parts of our everyday lived experiences. This exhibition includes art objects, furniture, and everyday domestic items that come together in quotidian yet unexpected groupings. Together they offer an opportunity to reconsider the confluences of the ordinary and extraordinary elements in our daily lives.
Amber Ford, from the series Mistaken Identity. Courtesy of the artist.
Staged as both an exhibition and an environment akin to a house museum or showroom, Wedding of the Waters presents works in painting, fiber, mixed-media, video, sculpture, installation, photography, and furniture, to explore how artists utilize their multiple creative roles and critical sensibilities to give shape to any given culture and era. This exhibition calls attention to the often unheralded and unacknowledged role that artists play in our society, it asks us to consider our personal environments and our own role within these spaces, and finally, it implores us to look at objects as containers of personal and cultural meaning that grow and change as we do.
Artists:
Becky Brown (Buffalo, NY), Paul Chandler (Buffalo, NY), Harun Farocki (Berlin, DE), Amber N. Ford (New Orleans, LA), Eli Gfell (Cleveland, OH), Michelle Grabner (Milwaukee, WI), Hayley Carrow-Janecki of RÓ Design (Buffalo, NY), John Opera (Buffalo, NY), and Margo Woloweic (Detroit, MI)
Curator:
A. Will Brown (Chicago, IL)
