Emilie Houssart, Potatocube, 2019
Join us via Zoom Sunday, May 3 at 4 PM EST for Im/Possible Futures, a panel discussion featuring four artists exhibiting pieces at "Owning Earth," opening this fall in the Sculpture Garden at Unison Arts.
Our panel will feature artists Erin Antonak, Christy Gast, Emilie Houssart, and Sariah Park. They will discuss the ways their proposals for Owning Earth challenge existing paradigms and open new realms of possibility. The panel will be facilitated by Tal Beery.
About Owning Earth
Owning Earth is an ambitious, two-year outdoor exhibition in the Sculpture Garden at Unison Arts. It will help bring critical attention to an emerging movement of creative practitioners undertaking outdoor installations and land-based projects that problematize notions of control, confront systems of domination, and prepare the soil for futures guided by mutuality and reverence.
More info:
https://www.unisonarts.org/owning-earth
About the Speakers:
Erin Antonak
Erin Lee Antonak is a sculptor, a milliner, and a Wolf Clan member of the Oneida Indian Nation of New York. She is a graduate of Bard College and studied at Lacoste School of the Arts, France and at Vermont Studio Center. She is currently the artist-in-residence at The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY and serves as a Yale University Morse College Fellow. Erin has worked in various museums and art galleries developing, designing, and building exhibitions for 20 years. She has also organized and curated shows in Europe, Asia, and North America. Her artwork fuses traditional Iroquois sensibilities and craft techniques with contemporary materials and concepts. Erin is also Assistant Curator of Owning Earth.
Christy Gast
Christy Gast is an artist whose work across media stems from extensive research and site visits to places she thinks of as “contested landscapes.” She is interested in places where there is evidence of conflict in human desires, which she traces, translates or mirrors through her art practice. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA/P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Performa, Artist’s Space, Harris Lieberman Gallery and Regina Rex in New York; the Pérez Art Museum of Miami, Bass Museum of Art, de la Cruz Collection, Locust Projects, and Nina Johnson in Miami; as well as Mass MoCA, the American University Museum, L.A.C.E., High Desert Test Sites, Centro Cultural Matucana 100 (Chile), the Kadist Foundation (Paris) and Milani Gallery (Brisbane). She has received grants and awards from the Art Matters Foundation, Funding Arts Network, South Florida Cultural Consortium, Tigertail, the American Austrian Foundation Hayward Prize, and the Joan Sovern Sculpture Award from Columbia University.
Emilie Houssart
Emilie Houssart explores absurd symptoms of human disconnection from the environment through painting, printmaking, sculpture and installation. Her work collides the organic with the mechanical, delicacy with violence, and naturally interdependent or chance systems with geometric constraints, posing questions about types of intelligence. She moved to the Hudson Valley in 2013, where she is currently an Instructor at Fall Kill Print Works and the Woodstock School of Art, and Resident Artist at the Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. Recent shows include EARTHBOUND, New York, co-curated with Hayoon Jay Lee (2020), Forest Geometries, a solo show and performance at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium (2019), and Damaged Goods, a solo installation of prints at Norwich Millennium Library, UK (2018).
Sariah Park
Sariah Park is an interdisciplinary artist with over fifteen years of experience in fiber, print, and fashion design. Sariah's current research is focused on the development of sustainable printing methods for textiles and fine art practices. Her most recent body of work features the up-cycling and repurposing of dead stock and damaged printed textiles into new forms and printing with waste to create large-scale works on paper. Sariah’s work aims to challenge the status quo of making and asks important questions regarding societal and industrial waste, consumption, sourcing, and methods of manufacturing.