The Day After Tomorrow - Exhibition & Audio Tour
Curated in the midst of pandemic and protests, The Day After Tomorrow: Art in Response to Turmoil and Hope explores the different ways artists have responded to crises, offering parallels to our own range of emotions and experiences this year. The exhibition is divided into three themes. A Better Tomorrow focuses on transcendence, alternate realities, the divine, afterlife, and bliss. A Worse Yesterday comprises works of art that address events that have shaken the world and thrown it into crises such as world wars, nuclear proliferation, AIDS, genocide, racism, and immigration. Awry Ecosystem focuses on art by artists concerned with the environment and how humans are changing it.
01: A Better Tomorrow - Sister Mary Corita Kent, in
At the age of 18, Corita Kent entered the Roman Catholic order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles, where she taught art and eventually ran the art department. After more than 30 years, at the end of the 1960s, she left the order to
02: A Better Tomorrow - Kenda North, Bliss
Born in Chicago, IL, Kenda North earned a BA in Fine Arts from Colorado College, Colorado Springs. After studying at the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, Austria, she received an MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, in 1976....
03: A Worse Yesterday - Nayland Blake, Infect
Nayland Blake is an American artist who has opted to use “they/them” pronouns, a decision that was made partly in solidarity with those whose gender expression does not fit a binary, as well as a nod to their own racial and sexual identity. Gender ambigui...
04: A Worse Yesterday - Alice Leora Briggs, Cornucopia
Alice Leora Briggs was born – and continues to live and work – in Texas. She has taught painting, drawing and other media at several universities and art schools throughout the country including The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University o...
05: Awry Ecosystem - Brandon Ballengee, RIP Utah Lake Sculpin: After Eugene Beckham, III
Brandon Ballengee is a visual artist, biologist and environmental educator based in Louisiana, where he creates transdisciplinary artworks inspired by his ecological field and laboratory research. RIP Utah Lake Sculpin: After Eugene Beckham, III visually
06: Awry Ecosystem - Margaret Nielsen, The Last of the Buffalo
For artist Margaret Nielsen, the journey of the individual has been a recurring theme in her artwork. The painter travels through her work and her own psyche, portraying aspects of life with a universal commonality and delving into the mystery of the huma...
07: Awry Ecosystem - Melanie Walker, Mis Tree/Mystery
Melanie Walker combines photography with sculpture, electronics, puppetry, costumes and sound to create participatory environments that break down the traditional facade for viewers. In her photographic work, much of it has revolved around a fictional fam...