Indicators: Artists on Climate Change at Storm King Art Center
|May 19 – Nov 12, 2018 : Hudson Valley, NY|
Indicators: Artists on Climate Change at Storm King Art Center
Organized by Nora Lawrence, Curator; David Collens, Director and Chief Curator; and Sarah Diver, Curatorial Assistant.
Indicators: Artists on Climate Change uses Storm King’s Museum Building and 500-acre site as platforms for seventeen contemporary artists to present work that engages with some of the many challenges—scientific, cultural, personal, psychological—that climate change has brought to humankind. Several artists draw inspiration from Storm King’s landscape and local ecosystem to speak to broader issues impacting the environment, global climate trends, and human ways of life. Environmental stewardship is at the core of Storm King’s mission, and Storm King’s setting—with intimate galleries as well as a host of different landscape conditions—provides artists with a unique and inspiring vantage from which to address ideas surrounding climate change, and also situates our audiences in a frame of mind that might allow them to think afresh about these issues. Ten of the exhibition’s outdoor, site-specific installations are newly created for the exhibition at Storm King.
Participating artists include: David Brooks, Dear Climate, Mark Dion, Ellie Ga, Justin Brice Guariglia, Allison Janae Hamilton, Maya Lin, Mary Mattingly, Alan Michelson, Mike Nelson, Steve Rowell, Gabriela Salazar, Rebecca Smith, Tavares Strachan, Meg Webster & Hara Woltz
For the exhibition, Kendler presents two projects, Underground Library inside the museum—and outdoors, the newly commissioned 40-foot sculptural work, Birds Watching, which features 100 eyes of bird species threatened by climate change.
See more on the Indicators website.
Selected Press for Indicators, Birds Watching & Underground Library
Selected Press for Indicators and Birds Watching
• "Birds Watching" featured in the New Yorker
• Art in America's review of "Indicators"
• Hyperallergic's coverage of "Indicators"
• Audubon interviews the artist about "Birds Watching" for their front-page story
• Nuanced look at "Indicators" by a Huffington Post climate journalist
• Curbed NY visits "Indicators," taking note of "Underground Library"
• "Birds Watching" & "Indicators" on NPR's WNYC
• "Indicators" announced in the New York Times