Our fall intern Maddie chose to take a sort dive into the history of Bayer and it's merger with Monsanto. Using appropriation, wordplay, and humor, Kirsten Stolle co-opts advertising strategies used by agrichemical corporations to resurface and critique company history. Building upon her decade-long research into companies like Bayer/Monsanto and Dow Chemical, the work will forefront historical ties to chemical warfare and reveal persistent greenwashing. Stolle’s work interrogates the global influence of chemical companies on our food supply and their consistent efforts to downplay effects of their toxic products on our health and environment. READ WHOLE POST [+]
Our fall 2022 intern Gracie picked a few pieces in the "Kirsten Stolle: Only You Can Prevent A Forest" exhibition to draw our attention towards. Using appropriation, wordplay, and humor, Asheville-based artist Kirsten Stolle co-opts advertising strategies used by agrichemical corporations to resurface and critique company history. For her exhibition, Stolle created eye-catching photo-based collages, visual poetry interventions, text-based sound animation, a neon wall piece, and her first site-responsive sculptural installation. READ WHOLE POST [+]
We are excited to share some lesson plans created by artist and educator Katie Brash designed to be used with the current "Kirsten Stolle: Only You Can Prevent A Forest" exhibition. READ WHOLE POST [+]
Our summer intern Grace wrote this blog post about the cultural and historical impacts of the Casta painting genre referenced in Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez’s paintings in her current exhibition. Casta paintings is a genre popularized in eighteenth-century Spanish Colonial Central and South America that purported to depict a racial and social taxonomy of children born of racially mixed couplings. Friedemann-Sánchez’s contemporary casta paintings take inspiration from this problematic genre to reflect on the legacy of colonialism that lingers in the racial and social discrimination and marginalization present in her home country of Colombia and here in the United States. READ WHOLE POST [+]
Our summer intern Ella takes a dive into the larger visual novel Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is creating. Her Casta Paintings on view in Pinturas de Casta and the Construction of American Identity is Chapter 6 of Mestiza Dos Veces. Check out the rest of this blog post to learn more about this impressive look at an overlooked American experience. READ WHOLE POST [+]
Our summer intern Dionah took time to reflect on the connective themes between the to current exhibitions, Kukuli Velarde: CORPUS and Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez: Pinturas de Casta and the Construction of American Identity. While the artworks in these exhibitions are visually very different, Dionah shares how both artists use honesty to discover other parts of the world and the effect on attempting to diminish one’s past brings about a stronger and longer fight for preservation. READ WHOLE POST [+]
CORPUS is comprised of ceramic and fabric works that encourage reflection on the meaning of survival in the face of colonialism. Fifteen ceramic sculptures, each with matching tapestries, are presented in a symbolic representation of the annual Corpus Christi festival in Cusco, Perú. The sculptures reference indigenous pre-Columbian forms and iconographies in a visual representation of syncretic aesthetic, cultural, and religious traditions. In this blog post, our summer intern Matty shares specific examples of this visual blend. READ WHOLE POST [+]
Kukuli Velarde's CORPUS is comprised of ceramic and fabric works that encourage reflection on the meaning of survival in the face of colonialism. Fifteen ceramic sculptures, each with matching tapestries, are presented in a symbolic representation of the annual Corpus Christi festival in Cusco, Perú. The sculptures reference indigenous pre-Columbian forms and iconographies in a visual representation of syncretic aesthetic, cultural, and religious traditions. In this blog post, summer intern Zola marks the annual Catholic Corpus Christi celebration referenced in CORPUS by joining the artist in asking exhibition viewers to consider the connection between cultural tourism and the expectation of displayed cultural authenticity? READ WHOLE POST [+]
Our summer intern Katherine browsed around in our reference library in the galleries to find titles that reflect themes or aspects of the exhibition on view. Check out this post for a few books she discovered then come by the galleries to explore the library, and the exhibitions, for yourself! READ WHOLE POST [+]
It's hard to believe that it has been five years since Rock Hill-based artist Tom Stanley's sgraffito paintings filled the Halsey Institute's galleries. In this post, summer intern Ella Mackinson shares an interesting project that Stanley was completing while also preparing for his exhibition here, Scratching the Surface. He was commissioned by the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) to design a public art installation at the Tom Hunter Station for the Lynx Blueline rail line located on North Tryon Street. READ WHOLE POST [+]
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