Susan McEachern: Questions of Nature
Curated by Susan Gibson Garvey
Organized by Dunlop Art Gallery. June 20, 1998 to July 26, 1998, at Central Gallery.
Additional Information
Other associated events: Reception and artist's talk Friday, June 19 at 5:30 pm, Central Gallery
Susan McEachern's photography-based project asks the thorny question of how one acknowledges the competitiveness of nature, without surrendering her consciousness to the inevitability of social Darwinism. As disarminly straightforward as her categories within the exhibition are - "animals, trees, water, garden and reproduction" - her work frustrates a straightforward didactic interpretation, and gently dislodges for close examination, widely held yet powerful assumptions and values. As essayist Susan Gibson Garvey points out, McEachern "...refuses to edit problematic concepts out of her work - people are competitive, people are racist, and people do struggle for change."
Susan McEachern, Reproduction (detail from Questions of Nature), 1994, digitally processed Duratrans image.
When
1998, Jul 26 1998 - All day
Where
Dunlop Central Gallery,
Interest
Past