The world population hit seven billion on October 31, 2011.
Even with a declining world population growth rate of just over one percent,
world population is projected to surpass nine billion by 2050. SEVEN BILLION PLUS is an
invitational group exhibition, that examines population growth, urbanization
and globalization through photographs, ceramics, installation, mixed-media and
sculpture.
SEVEN BILLION PLUS features North Carolina artists Geoff
Calabrese, ceramicist and instructor at Cape Fear Community College and Dan Brawley, interdisciplinary artist and director of
the Cucalorus Film Festival. The exhibit also features artists from one of the
largest and most rapidly growing countries in the world. Zhang Xiao is a
Chinese photographer and 2010 Photography Talent, 2010 MIO Photo and 2011 Prix
HSBC pour la Photographie award winner, and Jasper James is a Beijing-based,
UK-born photographer who captures reflections of silhouettes overlooking an
expansive metropolis. Also featured is the work of West African artist Nii
Narku whose painting depicts the overcrowded capital of Accra; sculptor and chair of the art department at Mt. San Jacinto College
in Southern California, Eileen Doktorski and Richard and Judith Lang who have collected and photographed over two tons of
plastic trash from 1,000 yards of Kehoe Beach along the Point Reyes National
Seashore in Northern California.
SEVEN BILLION PLUS will be on view in the University of North Carolina - Wilmington Art Gallery at the Cultural Arts Building from Oct. 11 through Nov. 9.
