artwork by Lucinda Bliss
artwork by Heather Green & Katherine Larson
Art Exhibitions are curated by Annie Guthrie and take place in the Jeremy Ingalls Gallery of the Poetry Center.
The Ghost Net Project, a collaboration between artist Heather Green and poet Katherine Larson, uses the physical remains from fishing as a lens to examine historical, cultural and ecological relationships to the Sea of Cortez. The project consists of 25 shadow boxes constructed with salvaged shrimp boat wood and filled with a display of flotsam and jetsam collected on the rocky shores of La Cholla. Each box is paired with a poem, an excerpt of which is etched onto its glass façade.
Sentinels consists of a recent series of mixed media drawings in which Bliss employs a playful visual language to speak to grave ecological, and other, concerns. Menageries of bandaged deer, rabbits, ostriches, and birds balance in odd clusters in ephemeral habitats. Classifications and alliances are confused in the absence of definable place and natural order. The exploration continues in the altered book series, Atlas of American Wars, Books I-IV, in which the visual language of playing cards is utilized.
In this work Bliss is reconsidering monumental, exploring whether it might be applied to delicate, representational work, and asking how a playful, even beautiful, visual language can speak to urgent social issues.
Students in the School of Art at the University of Arizona respond to the Poetry Center’s theme for Fall 2009. Their experiments in contemporary drawing are inspired by an interdisciplinary contemplation of the Earth’s predicted fragile future. Professor Barbara Penn presides.
Past exhibitions include:
Kim Young
