Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art
JAM, Noon Solar bag in use, 2004
Andrea Zittel installation view at Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Installation view at Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Balancing environmental, social, economic, and aesthetic concerns, sustainable design has the potential to transform everyday life and is reshaping the fields of architecture and product design. Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art explores the influence of this design philosophy on artists who combine a fresh aesthetic sensibility with a constructively critical approach to the production, dissemination, and display of art.
Beyond Green includes existing works, commissions, and previously presented work that has been “recycled,” spotlighting ways in which artists are building paths to new forms of practice. Many of the artists work collaboratively and leaven serious social aims with playful, off-the-grid spark, updating the Bauhaus notion of form following function or more recent Beuysian social sculpture. Their approaches range from the metaphorical to the pragmatic, sometimes serving as models for audience activism.
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Allora & Calzadilla, Free Soil (Amy Franceschini, Myriel Milicevic, & Nis Rømer), JAM (Jane Palmer & Marianne Fairbanks), Learning Group (Brett Bloom, Julio Castro, Rikke Luther, & Cecelia Wendt), Brennan McGaffey & Temporary Services, Nils Norman, People Powered, Dan Peterman, Marjetica Potrc, Michael Rakowitz, Frances Whitehead, WochenKlausur, Andrea ZittelTouring Schedule
- The DeVos Art Museum, Northern Michigan University Marquette, Michigan January 19, 2009 - March 30, 2009
- The Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College Portland, Oregon September 11, 2008 - December 12, 2008
- Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford Hartford, Connecticut April 4, 2008 - June 10, 2008
- Museum London London, Ontario, Canada January 5, 2008 - March 16, 2008
- Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University Greencastle, Indiana September 14, 2007 - December 2, 2007
- Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Ohio May 5, 2007 - July 15, 2007
- Smith College Museum of Art Northampton, Massachusetts February 2, 2007 - April 15, 2007
- University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach Long Beach, California November 1, 2006 - December 17, 2006
- Museum of Arts & Design New York, New York February 2, 2006 - May 7, 2006
- Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois October 6, 2005 - January 15, 2006