Wednesday, March 31, 2010
New Harmony Gallery exhibit examines bird migrations and extinctions
Brian Collier, Perching Starlings #1208, giclee print, 13"x19", 2008.
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Erika Myers-Bromwell Director of New Harmony Gallery of Comtemporary Art 812/682-3156 "The New Birds of New Harmony" will examine bird migrations and extinctions paying particular attention to the introduction of the starling to North America and the current bird populations in the Midwest and New Harmony. Collier's projects span a variety of media, including websites, video, sculpture, photography, drawing, artist's books, and performance. His diverse practice focuses on ways in which elements of the non-human natural world exist, or have reinserted themselves, in severely human-altered habitats. Through his projects, he disseminates information about these sites, often proposing strategies to re-evaluate the weedy margins of the human-dominated landscape. He is founder and president of The Society for a Re-Natural Environment. Collier grew up in Bay Shore, New York and currently lives in Bloomington, Illinois. He earned his MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his BFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Collier's work has appeared widely in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. A partial list of international venues include: Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, in Bremen, Germany and Visuales and Galeria Raul Martinez in Havana, Cuba. He also has exhibited widely across the U.S. including at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado, Rowland Contemporary in Chicago, Illinois, and Contemporary Art Center in North Adams, Massachusetts. Reviews and articles about Collier's work have appeared in a variety of publications, among them Art in America, The New York Times, Afterimage, Art Papers Magazine, The Chicago Reader, Orion: Nature/ Culture/ Place, and the book, Say It Isn't So: Naturwissenschaften im Vissier der Kunst / Art Trains its Sights on the Natural Sciences (Weserburg: Museum fur moderne Kunst). New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is located at 506 Main Street in New Harmony, Indiana, and is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, call 812/682-3156 or visit www.nhgallery.com. This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of the University of Southern Indiana. |
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