Grounded: Photography and Our Contemporary Environment
Ellen Curlee Gallery
March 14 - May 10, 2008
Chase Browder
Isabelle Hayeur
Jenny Kendler
David Maisel
Maslen and Mehra
John Pfahl
Nichole Van Beek
Caroline Voagen Nelson
Voshardt/Humphrey
Scott Wolniak
Curated by Dana Turkovic
Project Description:
Grounded: Photography and Our Contemporary Environment
is an exhibition that brings together international
photography and video art that focuses on the
fundamental relationship between humans and nature and
show the complex and dynamic interrelationship between
humans and the earth, and to the environmental
troubles we are currently confronted with. In
partnership with the St. Louis Earth Day organization,
the theme of the exhibition was developed through an
ongoing discussion with about their interest in adding
a collaborative and artistic component that directly
involves the community. The group of photographers
represented in Grounded are among an intensifying,
global movement of artists who are addressing
environmental concerns and critically engaging in
issues like climate change, extinction, conservation,
environmentally sensitive building and planning and
waste management and believe that art can play a
critical role in providing creative insight into these
challenges. Grounded proposes art as a way of creating
a better understanding about our relationship with
nature and the environment and to explore the renewed
role of contemporary art as a leading force in the
global debate about the future of the planet. The
Ellen Curlee Gallery specializes in contemporary fine
art photography with a special emphasis on the work of
international photographers.
