January 21 – March 5, 2020
In the current milieu of technological advance, information is distributed at an incessant pace and purposefully calculated for swift and continued re-consumption. “pretty /tough” examines the ways in which artists look beyond the facade to explore the by-products and effects of a globally connected world. Works in the exhibit investigate the seemingly traditional roles of nature, culture and the built environment but peer in from the edges defining alternative narratives to the conventional conditions of domestic, digital, economic and environmental histories.
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Michael Ashkin“were it not for” |
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Cythnia Camlin“Island of Ought and Naught” |
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Julie Dermansky“Home near John Amos coal fired powerplant in Poca, West Virginia” |
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Joelle Dietrick“Sherwin’s Kinetic Contracts 21” |
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Diane Fox“Poached, Naturhistorisches Museum, Bern, Switzerland” |
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Stacy Isenbarger“Floor Plan” |
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Lori Larusso“If you can Moonlight as the Tooth fairy, you can Participate in Collective Disappearance” |
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Michael Marks“The Arcade” |