Michael Curtis Asbill | Anthroposnic

Exhibition Dates: 9/13 – 10/12

Gallery Hours: Work activated from sunset to sunrise each day, (7:30pm – 6:30am)

Anthroposonic is at its core a field recording of fracking in progress, recorded in a residential neighborhood, Arlington, TX. Looped, stacked, waning, waxing, never ending.

“I’m just at the mercy of which way the wind blows.” Kim Fiel Haley Samsel and Amal Ahmed, 12/26/2023, ‘As fracking increases in the Barnett Shale, Arlington city leaders avoid scrutiny’, Fort Worth Report

Michael Curtis Asbill (b. 1991, @fakespambot) is an artist and public media advocate working in North Texas. Asbill earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017 after completing a BFA in photography at Texas State University. Grounded in photography and other popular media production strategies, Asbill has developed several ‘case studies’ examining(surveilling) socio-political forces operating at the margins of our perception. His work has been presented at Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX; CO-OPt: Research + Projects, Lubbock, TX; Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL; Gallery KIN, Chicago; Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago; Cement Loop, Austin, TX; and his photographic work can be seen in the Photography and Media Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. Asbill also dedicates much of his labor to expanding access to arts and media economy in North Texas, exemplified by his work with the Fort Worth Public Library’s Amplify817 program.