{"id":81644,"date":"2022-11-21T20:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T20:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=81644"},"modified":"2022-12-14T18:26:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:26:56","slug":"growing-uris-exhibit-spaces-new-show-in-the-greenhouses-examines-food-through-an-artistic-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2022\/11\/growing-uris-exhibit-spaces-new-show-in-the-greenhouses-examines-food-through-an-artistic-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s exhibit spaces: New show in the Greenhouses examines food through an artistic lens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Nov. 21, 2022 \u2013 Walk to the path by the Greenhouses, across from the Fine Arts Center. Find the Horridge Conservatory and cross through that warm and bright space, teeming with unique specimens. Pass by the indoor koi pond and take a right at the greenhouse\u2019s end. Walk by College of the Environment and Life Sciences\u2019 class spaces until you come to a sign. You\u2019ve made your way to the newest art exhibit at the 溏心vlog免费B站.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome Food We Could Not Eat\u201d<\/a> is installed in a 溏心vlog免费B站 greenhouse, both for purposes practical (the Fine Arts building is undergoing renovation) and aesthetic. Gallery Director Rebecca Levitan started at 溏心vlog免费B站 last year, coming here with a goal of bringing art to people who might not usually encounter it. In this exhibition, she hoped to venture into new, not necessarily \u201cwhite gallery wall,\u201d spaces on campus. So the secret-garden feel to one\u2019s path to the greenhouse is part of the viewer\u2019s artistic journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I know I\u2019ve hurt you, I\u2019m sorry, by Providence artist Kamari Carter <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

With a gallery exhibit about food as art, what better place to travel or view it than through the University\u2019s working greenhouses?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibit is open 8 a.m. through 4 p.m. this fall, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays), running in conjunction with the University\u2019s 2022 Honors Colloquium, \u201cJust Good Food,\u201d <\/a>which focuses on food systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Levitan knew she wanted to find artists working with food in novel, conceptual ways. \u201cI didn’t want to just have paintings of food on the wall. I wanted to find artists who made food an integral part of their work.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennie Maydew<\/a>, an educator from Brooklyn, incorporated wild plants and food waste gathered for the exhibit; from onion skins to coffee filters. Her work represents the ephemeral, indeed compostable, nature of her subject matter. She also created live anthotype prints derived from pigments found in certain plants and flowers to further showcase the perishable nature of food and textiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoe Scruggs<\/a>, a multidisciplinary artist and farmer from Delaware, contributed three prints to the show. A descendant of sharecroppers, much of Scruggs\u2019 work is inspired by farmers, environmental justice activists and cultural workers, grappling with the ways Black American trauma is rooted in relationship to the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Providence-based installation artist Kamari Carter<\/a> created an acrylic cube display that is soothing to look at \u2014 until you realize that the cube is filled with 304 packets of grape powder, a serialized representation of the Peoples Temple agricultural project in Guyana and its infamous ending in 1978 when members committed suicide using the flavored drink. Carter began by thinking about food in terms of tradition and culture and considering ways to present it in a more abstract way, representing the body as a temple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI wanted to focus on the idea of nourishment turned around,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a tension in the environment for this exhibit but it works.\u201d Carter will next bring his work to MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think what\u2019s key in my work is that it is ongoing. I hope the work is not so fixed for the artist or the viewer that there can\u2019t be a conversation. We can take treacherous things and situations and still talk about them, even things that are difficult to talk about.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The greenhouse setting for the exhibit only serves to amplify the power of these displays and the questions they elicit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cArt doesn\u2019t have to happen in a traditional gallery space,\u201d asserts Levitan, \u201cor on a hallway in an academic building. We hope more people visit before the show closes in December.\u201d The exhibit is a little off the beaten path but very accessible, she notes, as many students walk by the greenhouses on the path from the Fine Arts parking lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs a school, we can expose students to more challenging and conceptual work,\u201d she said. \u201cThat is part of the gallery\u2019s mission; we can explore what conceptual art means and provide access to something you\u2019d normally only see in a big city.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibit will be up through Dec. 13. Visitors to campus can find parking details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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