Ecocide/Ecosave

 

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@check.mate.project

Here's the scoop about Maarten Vanden Eynde Check Mate Project  

We contributed nurdles in 2021 and again in 2022. 

Happy to be a very small part of such an ambitious project.

9/26/22 from Maarten Vanden Eynde 

Here’s Maarten, the visual artist working in Belgium. I contacted you previously about my participative installation Check Mate, the gigantic chessboard, for which you generously donated nurdles.

The project is starting round#2, and I'm once again trying to gather support! I was wondering if you continued collecting nurdles since last time we spoke, and if you’d agree to give some to the project once more. In June 2023, Check Mate will be exhibited again in a major venue, and I’d like to draw people’s attention to the problem of plastic pollution. This time, I’m going for the 20th square of the chessboard, for which I need a total amount of 524,288 nurdles, so all the help I receive is hugely appreciated :) There is no obligation and no rush, but please, don't hesitate to come back to me if you're interested!

July 30, 2021

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Great Wave

Pancho Jiménez, Liz Hickok, Ann Trinca, Richard Lang, Judith Selby Lang

It was a great Great Wave reception on Friday evening, October 7, with so much of a feeling of being back.

Definitely back to the traffic ARRGGGHH!!!— where are all of these people going?

It was back to a gallery filled to the brim with hugs and high-fives. With artists and art enthusiasts expressing appreciation for the artwork and for our brief talk — they even clapped.

We might get used to this — receptions, events, screenings. YAY!

Our piece Remnant loomed over the crowd, expressing all of the power and "terrible beauty" of ghost fishing with the cast shadows animating the space with an underwater feeling.

Rhiannon Briggs, a student a SCU, filed this thoughtful report in The Santa Clara

Great Wave

Exhibition Dates: Sept 19 2022 - Jan 13, 2023

Edward M. Dowd Art and Art History Building

Santa Clara University

 

Great Wave

Artists through the ages have looked to the ocean in all its majesty for clues about the planet’s future. This group exhibition features contemporary artists who live near the coast, and whose work immerses us in a watery drama. Organized by longtime Bay Area curator Ann Trinca, this show finds inspiration in the work of Japanese ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai’s ubiquitous woodblock print The Great Wave. The Great Wave is recognizable across cultures as a symbol of the unpredictable power of the ocean. Using this historic piece as a jumping off point, the artists in the exhibition explore the ocean as a source of mystery and resilience.

Curator Ann Trinca

Artists: Brandon Anderton, Tess Felix, Peter Hassen, Liz Hickok, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Hughen/Starkweather, Luc Janssens, Josh Keyes, Laura Arminda Kingsley, Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang, Courtney Mattison, Allison Watkins and Angela Willetts

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Pacific Rise: Ocean Health

The Bolinas Museum writes:

"Pacific Rise: Ocean Health expresses both urgency and hope by highlighting the work of visionary artists, scientists, citizens, and organizations. Through painting, photography, multi-media, sculpture, and academic research, the exhibition focuses on the wonder of the marine world, the current age of destructive human impact on the planet—the Anthropocene epoch—and ideas that can empower us as individuals to take responsibility for our daily choices, and be proactive voices for changing our collective human behavior."

Co-curated by Louisa Glober and Elia Haworth.

Pacific Rise: Ocean Health is presented in the main and photo galleries and through out the museum, where ocean related themes are explored. The Coastal Marin Artists Gallery features Laurie Mahan Sawyer: Seeing the Unseen. In the History Room among the many artifacts there are graphic photos of the effect of the oil spill in Bolinas Lagoon. The Collection Gallery has been curated to feature beach and ocean images from the museum permanent collection.

We are pleased to be included in this thoughtful exhibition with a such an illustrious group of artists that is text-rich with the voices of scientist writers and experts. 

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Bryant Austin, Brown Cannon III, Sally K. Fairfax, Tess Felix, Elizabeth Fenwick, Keith Hansen, Steve N. G. Howell, Joe Hoyt, Josie Iselin, Jenny Jacox, Chris Jordan, Guillermo H. Kelly, Judith Selby Lang & Richard Lang, Ellen Litwiller, Ethan Okamura, Deborah Oropallo & Andy Rappaport, Laura Plageman, Lina Prairie, Cara Romero, Camille Seaman, Andy Segal, Joseph Siedman, Janai Southworth, Nancy Stein, John Warzybok, Elizabeth Weber, Chelsea Ryoko Wong, and more.

PARTICIPATING SCIENCE WRITERS: Biret Adden, Sarah Allen, Bruce Bowser, Sally K. Fairfax, Peter Gleckler, Keith Hansen, Burr Heneman, Steve Howell, Josie Iselin, Jenny Jacox, Mike Jacox, Judith Selby Lang & Richard Lang, Joe Mueller, Hawk Rosales, Terry Sawyer, Jennifer Stock, Michael Stocker, and more.

In the History Room our print Widening Gyre

In the Photography Gallery:

Pacify fashioned from the remains of a baby binky and tiparillo tips strung like pearls to shape the ring of the necklace. Kid pacifiers. Adult pacifiers. 

Glad to be in the fine company of Chris Jordan's photograph of an albatross from his powerful series Midway:Message from the Gyre.

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