Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Just One Word

 


Just One Word  from the Rena Bransten Gallery: 

Each minute one million plastic bottles are used around the world [Reuters].  “… and every minute a chance to change the world…” Dolores Huerta [labor leader, civil rights activist, and catalyst of the environmental-justice movement].

Acknowledging our concern for wildlife, planetary sustainability, and the overwhelming impact of environmental injustice on our children – particularly low income and people of color – the Rena Bransten Gallery is pleased to announce our membership in the Gallery Climate Coalition.

Inspired by ecological heroism, we present Just one word…Plastics, an exhibition including work by Edward Burtynsky, Tony Cragg, Mark Dion,  Guillermo Galindo, Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang, Chip Lord, Susan Middleton, Vik Muniz, Mansur Nurullah, Aaron Siskind, and William T. Wiley.  The exhibition will be accompanied by a small shop of zero-waste, ecologically sound, common household goods. The title is taken from a line in The Graduate (1967), a piece of advice from the old guard encouraging a lucrative career and extolling this new material and its many promises.   In retrospect we see the advice as both naïve and sinister – a foreshadowing of environmental disaster. 

Press release HERE.