Stout’s sculptural models are filters through which he distances himself from the world. As a kid, he worked in a hobby
store. Systems tinkering was mandatory. The geeky youth he must have been is now blinding us with science and passing it
off as art. From his cracked accounts, the tragedy of our
cracked relationship with the earth takes slippery and uncertain shape.
She works in the gap between flesh and fantasy, nature and technology,
attraction and repulsion. Her meanings slide across each other like
tectonic plates. What grinds to powder between them is the audience’s
certainty that it knows what’s going on.
I’m always interested in the manufactured nature-as-experiment/artistic process, but it seems Susan Robb investigates something which exists on an almost invasive level (or symbiotic?).
On a different level of art and nature, I’m really digging on Mandy Greer’s latest project. It’s a suggestion of something earthly, but more fantastical.
Laura Fritz does disturbingly strong things with bugs, cats and labs that wont leave my mind alone.
True. If I were curating a show on this theme, she’d be in it.