GROUP EXHIBITION

See You Tomorrow Under Other Skies brings together a cross-generational group of artists whose work uses land, and the histories it carries, as material. In works spanning painting, textile, sculpture, performance, and photography, mapping emerges as a shared impulse. It is shown as an active process, as demonstrated by Andy Goldsworthy’s direct interventions into the landscape, Eleanor Antin’s seminal work 100 Boots, in which 100 rubber rain boots chart the artist’s own cross country journey as they marched from Los Angeles to New York, and Binta Diaw’s photographs, which connect the forms of the body directly to landscape. In works by Julien Creuzet and Sonya Kelliher-Combs, mapping becomes a means of recording, as they examine how shifting borders reveal the colonial histories that shaped their lived environments, and continue to define their identities in the present. This desire also extends to the works of Cecilia Vicuña and Rember Yahuarcani, which seek to record and preserve the Indigenous histories, and mythologies, erased by these forces, and to Susan Hudson’s quilts, which depict the often obscured histories of violence against Indigenous people in the United States.

Land is also a generative force. María Dávila and Eduardo Portillo employ silk cultivated by their own silkworms in their intricate weavings, which are deeply intertwined with the Venezuelan Andes, where they live and work. The experience of nature is a driving force in the paintings of Joan Snyder, in which natural forms recur as her own personal vernacular. And for James Lavadour, the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon continually evolve through color and light, as he translates the dynamic forces of nature in paint. As land is continually contested, remapped, and cultivated, these connections become increasingly fragile. Andrea Bowers’ sculptures, based on her experiences tree-sitting in the Northern California redwoods, imagine self-sustaining tree-sitting platforms for protestors, equipped with sketchbooks, cooking equipment, and tools. Seen together, the works demonstrate not only the myriad ways in which the past of our surrounding environments has shaped our present, but the urgency in protecting, and participating, in their future. Drawn from a poem written by Julien Creuzet, whose sculpture contains the same line within its title, See You Tomorrow Under Other Skies gestures towards futures still open to repair, and reimagining.

Courtesy Andrew Kreps Gallery.