ESCONI member Andrew Young has an art show currently up at the Notebaert Nature Museum in Chicago. Twenty-four new paintings and sculptures will be on view from October 27th, 2018 to February 3rd, 2019.
Andrew Young: All This Land
October 27th, 2018 through February 3rd, 2019
For over three decades, Andrew Young has created art that presents nature as a reference point for human aspirations, worldly and spiritual. His earlier tempera works grappled with our natural desire for ethereal and transcendent experience, yet constrained by such temporal matters as history and mortality. The next phase in Young’s work more clearly reflected his background in science. Carefully constructed collages explored how we observe and catalog our surroundings, defining us through the models and language we use. A new direction here goes further into the physical aspect of art making; specific sources of pigments, their collection and processing, carry as much meaning as any imagery found or invented. The material itself grounds us to a living or geological occurrence, and to a place.
Today, we are at an inflection point in our relationship to the landscape. No matter if one’s perception of nature is romantic, aesthetic, or purely utilitarian, dramatic change is underway. All This Land is a paradoxical title for a show that uses a little humor, theater, abstraction, and a ton of recovered objects to address a more somber awareness that the Earth’s fragile systems and resources, despite some current beliefs and tendencies, are not inexhaustible.
For more information about Andrew Young’s work, visit andrewyoungart.com
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
2430 Cannon Drive
Chicago, IL 60614
(773) 755-5100
naturemuseum.org
Horizons (Boundaries) 2 – found pigments (from Utah and Kansas) on incised and stained museum board: 22.25 x 22.25 in.
Coal Drawing 2 – ground coal, rust, and freshwater mussel shells in gum arabic, zinc white, on soot-stained paper: 21.5 x 15.25 in.
Work Clothes – decayed late-1800s coal-mining artifacts (Braceville, Illinois), folded cotton shirt and pants soaked in burnt, oxidized shale overburden: 31 x 20.5 x 10 in.
Dates for artist gallery talks will be forthcoming.
