Detail View: Environmental Futures: Co-Terminous exhibition

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Co-Terminous exhibition

installation view of Co-Terminous, featuring works by (front to back) Alejandra Abad, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, and Diane Burko

Boundaries in time and space, so often alienating or abrupt, also offer a place for enmeshment, a recognition of assorted, inherent continuums. Artists here work to illuminate indiscernible thresholds, subtle rhythms of horizons, watermarks of catastrophe. Our shared environmental futures depend upon recognizing the particularities of loss and inequality, while also demanding a constant realignment of vantages, so justice becomes actionable. Our fortunes, our fates, our borders, our bodies are all co-terminous, and they require heightened perception to witness the fainter spectrum of what’s being lost and what could be gained. // Curated by Erin Espelie: Assistant Professor, Cinema Studies & Critical Media Practices and Co- Director, NEST Studio for the Arts, CU Boulder.

2020

exhibition

Erin Espelie (American, born 1979)

female

Artist's Statement: Erin Espelie is an artist and writer whose poetic nonfiction films about science and the natural world have shown at the New York Film Festival, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Whitechapel Gallery in London, and more. She is co-director of NEST (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology) Studio for the Arts and an assistant professor of Cinema Studies & the Moving Image Arts & Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder.

faculty, Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts; and College of Media, Communication and Information

Alejandra Abad (Venezuelan, American, active ca. 2003 to present)

female

Artist's statement: Alejandra Abad was born in Venezuela and partially raised in Florida. She is an interdisciplinary artist with a penchant for dense, fantastical landscapes and abstract shapes. Her style is informed by her studies in Architecture at Florida Atlantic University and in Film, Video, and New Media at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her BFA. In 2018 she received a fellowship at CU Boulder, where she is currently pursuing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices. Currently, she is part of the 2020-2021 Engaged Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Scholars cohort at CU Boulder. Her recent projects feature conceptual and collaborative pieces that work to break down the barriers between artist and audience. She creates honest and symbolic narratives in a visual language that depicts fragmentation, mythology, and folklore. Her installations use analog and digital processes – including painting, animation, sculpture, etc. – to make immersive environments that reflect her identity and values.

MFA 2021, Art and Art History

Diane Burko (American, active ca. 1966 to present)

female

Artist's statement: Diane Burko’s practice is at the intersection of Art, Science, and the Environment focused on climate change. Born in Brooklyn, Burko graduated from Skidmore College with a B.S. in art history and painting. She earned an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. Burko was a professor at Community College of Philadelphia until 2000, also teaching at Princeton University, ASU, and PAFA. In 1974, she founded FOCUS: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts. As a research-based artist, she collaborates with scientists, using their data, visiting their labs, and bearing witness. She has investigated the ice fields of Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard and Alaska as well as Antarctica, Argentina’s Patagonia, and the melting glaciers in New Zealand’s southern alps. Such experiences augment her ongoing study of the natural world that inspires studio production, resulting in over 100 exhibitions throughout the country along with her work collected by such institutions as The Art Institute of Chicago, Delaware Art Museum, Hood Museum, Michener Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tang Art Museum, and the Zimmerli Museum. She has received 2 NEA Artists grants, 2 PA Council on the Arts Grants, the Lifetime Achievement Award by the WCA/CAA in 2011, an Independence Foundation award in 2013, and the Fleisher Art Memorial Founders award in 2019.

Tania Candiani (Mexican, born 1974)

female

Artist's statement: The work of Tania Candiani, who was born in Mexico City, has developed in various media and practices that maintain an interest in the complex intersection between language systems -phonic, graphic, linguistic, symbolic and technological. She received Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship in 2018; a Guggenheim Fellowship Award in 2011; and an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica in 2013, among others. She represented Mexico, in collaboration with Luis Felipe Ortega, at the 56th Venice Biennale. Among her monographic books are Possessing Nature. Pavilion of Mexico (2015); and Cromática (upcoming in 2021).

Raven Chacon (American, born 1977)

male

Artist's statement: Raven Chacon is a composer, performer and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation. As a solo artist, collaborator, or with Postcommodity, Chacon has exhibited or performed at Whitney Biennial, documenta 14, REDCAT, Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Chaco Canyon, Ende Tymes Festival, 18th Biennale of Sydney, and The Kennedy Center. Every year, he teaches 20 students to write string quartets for the Native American Composer Apprenticeship Project (NACAP). He is the recipient of the United States Artists fellowship in Music, The Creative Capital award in Visual Arts, The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation artist fellowship, and the American Academy’s Berlin Prize for Music Composition. He lives in Albuquerque, NM.

Amy Felder (American, active ca. 2003 to present)

female

Artist's statement: Amy Felder was raised in South Carolina and is currently based in Fort Collins, CO. She earned her MA from University of Northern Colorado and her BA from College of Charleston. Spanning a breadth of mediums including paintings, wall hangings, installation work, and embroidery, her work reflects a contemporary experience of nature and struggle to preserve wilderness. Amy has recently shown work in multiple exhibitions including a solo show and was awarded Best in Show in the University of Northern Colorado’s Annual Student Exhibition.

Herbert Pföstl (Austrian, born 1968)

male

Artist's statement: Herbert Pföstl was born in Graz, Austria in 1968. Previously a curator and book buyer at the New Museum in New York, Pföstl is the co-author of To Die No More, and author of Light Issued Against Ruin and Schrift-Landschaften. His recent translation, A Shelter for Bells: From the Writings of Hans Jürgen von der Wense, was published by Epidote Press. A painter of plants, animals, and saints, Pföstl’s artworks are held in both public and private collections.

Camila Friedman-Gerlicz (American, active ca. 2010 to present)

female

Artist's statement: Camila Friedman-Gerlicz grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico... After many years of studying abstract mathematics, she decided to pursue a career as an artist. Since this transition, mathematical concepts and way of thinking has become an integral part of her work. She is currently teaching math and working as an artist in Santa Fe.

MFA 2018, Art and Art History; Lecturer 2018-ca. 2020, Art and Art History

Erika Osborne (American, active ca. 1995 to present)

female

Artist's statement: Erika Osborne received her BFA from the University of Utah in painting and drawing and her MFA from the University of New Mexico. Erika’s artwork deals with cultural connections to place and environment, which garnered her a Fullbright fellowship in 2019. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, with over ten solo exhibitions and over 80 group exhibitions in recent years. She is currently an Associate Professor at Colorado State University.

Kronos Quartet (American, founded 1973 to present)

male and female

Curator: Erin Espelie; Artists: Alejandra Abad, Diane Burko, Tania Candiani, Raven Chacon in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet, Amy Felder, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Erika Osborne, Herbert Pföstl.

climate

environment (earth sciences concept)

human rights

justice (philosophical concept)

borders (boundaries)

environmental impact

climate change

Co-Terminous (exhibition)

exhibitions (events)

installations (exhibitions)

exhibitions

Union Hall (Denver, Colorado)

exhibition

Denver, Colorado

© Matthew Pevear

© Alejandra Abad

© Diane Burko

© Tania Candiani

© Raven Chacon

© Amy Felder

© Camila Friedman-Gerlicz

© Erika Osborne

© Herbert Pföstl

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