Upwelling
Image: Margaret Craig, A Good Haul, Mixed media print collage with repurposed plastic, 2020
Curated By Madeline Irvine
Exhibition Dates: Dec 15, 2023 - Jan 7, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, Dec 15, 2023, 7-10 pm
About
ICOSA Collective is proud to present Upwelling, a group exhibition featuring art by over 30 artists whose work explores the environment, nature, and climate change.
The exhibition will consist of seven installations and a salon wall of artists' work that forms a chorus of voices and proffers individual approaches to understanding and living through this time of change. Responses include the physicality of sea rise, stitching together what we have and what has been decimated, humor, documentation and seeking resiliency.
Out-of-gallery installations will be presented by The Really Small Museum’s two locations:
Sightings by Juliet Whitsett at the 14th Corner Contemporary (The 14th),
Still Time by Karen Maness at The Banton Road Museum of Art (The Banton).
Participating Artists:
Ann Armstrong, Shawn Camp, Ted Carey, Mery Godigna Collet, Margaret Craig, Virginia Fleck, Jason Garcia, Steph Granillo, Hollis Hammonds, Jamal Hussain, Madeline Irvine, Calder Kamin, Christopher Kennedy, Dameon Lester, Beili Liu, Mona Marshall, Paloma Mayorga, Deborah Mersky, Melissa Miller, John Mulvany, Matt Rebholz, Amy Scofield, Shawn Smith, Jana Swec, The Really Small Museum, Lana Waldrep-Appl, Jade Walker, Tammy West, Cheyenne Weaver, Juliet Whitsett, and Suzanne Wyss.
About the Curator:
Madeline Irvine is a multidisciplinary artist whose focus is the natural world, past, present and future. Irvine's current work is based on her research of the ocean and the rapid climate change happening beneath its surface. She uses an open range of media to develop the work, including saltwater paintings and drawings, floating light sculptures, time-lapse video and photography. Born in Manhattan, Irvine experienced great art, comic books, urban life and nature as formative influences. A resident of Austin since 1993, she works out of a garage studio and driveway. Irvine has worked in the arts as a professor, a curator, an arts writer and critic, and an arts administrator. She received an MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art.
