Sam Spillman, Terminal (2017)

On Precarity: Owning Earth Panel Discussion

Our panel will feature artists Eileen Wold and Sam Spillman. We will discuss the ways art practice can help us embrace experiences of uncertainty and vulnerability. 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.

Speaker Bios

Eileen Wold

Eileen Wold received her MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and currently teaches a critical studies course in the Studio Art MFA program there.  Wold is the co-founder of the online artist publication Black Bucket Essays and has been organizing group exhibitions through a pop-up gallery space she created in her studio building outside of Seattle.   Her research and art practice examines the issues of power production, environmental conservation, and ecological vulnerability.

Sam Spillman

Sam Spillman is an artist who creates architectural environments that embody anxiety and suspense through an exploration of psychological states in physical space. Spillman’s site-specific installations use existing architecture as a point of departure for interactions that make the familiar unfamiliar. He has an MFA from the School of Art + Design at Purchase College SUNY, where he is currently a Lecturer in the Sculpture Department. His work has been included in exhibitions in New York City, Westchester, Pine Plains and Ithaca NY.