Ellen Mueller

Land Sc(r)aping: Development, Community, & Affect

by Ellen Mueller on April 29, 2018, no comments

Landscraping

I am thrilled to be included in Land Sc(r)aping: Development, Community, Affect at Living Arts of Tulsa, which opens this Friday! Works from my recent McMansions body of work will be on view.

This group exhibition examines the concept of “environment” as an interstice between U.S. politics, economy, land ownership, materiality, and its communal and individuated impacts. The double-term of the exhibition title suggests that whenever there is a curatorial effort placed upon land, there is simultaneous consequence. Each artist selected for this exhibition inspects relational conditions between development and human impact/traces, inviting the viewer to consider their own presence and involvement within these larger socio-economic systems. The exhibition, itself, will also grow and change between its opening on May 4th, 2018 and its closing on July 12th: new artworks will be added, the gallery space will shift, and remnants from workshops and lectures will remain in order to actuate development within the gallery. In this way, I hope to produce an organism of an exhibition that may operate as site that, not only collaboratively informs the viewer and participating artists, but also recognizes its own envelopment within a cycle of scaping and scraping land and material and bodies.
– Jessica Borusky, Artistic Director of Living Arts 

Participating Artists: Bill White, Aaron StephanEllen MuellerSeann StarowitzValery LymanNick PenaTali WeinbergCaitlin HorsmonBlights Out!

Reception: Friday, May 4 at 6-9PM CDT
The event is free to the public.

Living Arts of Tulsa
307 E Brady St
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74120
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