Insights and Innovation: Artist Panel Discussion

The BMCC community and the general public is invited to a panel discussion at the Shirley Fiterman Art Center. This discussion is related to the current exhibit Natural Proclivities.

It has been the defining mission of Natural Proclivities to raise awareness and inspire empathy for our environment through the vehicle of art. Each of the artists in this exhibition, through their creations, has shown us their own response to the natural world and all it has to offer, from the abject to the ephemeral.

The eight artists on this panel, Joan Bankemper, Naomi Campbell, Elizabeth Demaray, Zachari Logan, Gregory Thielker, Virginia Wagner (including the curators Kim Power and Melanie Vote) have each, in their own way, considered and incorporated some aspect of their concern, reverence or inspiration about the environment into their own artistic practice.

This panel, Insights and Innovation will explore how each of them have defined the role of nature in their own work and the processes behind their creations as well as bring to light some of the concerning issues in today’s epoch, the Anthropocene.

About the Exhbiit
Natural Proclivities examines the relationship between humans and nature, both our responsibility and response to it, how we transform it and how it transforms us. Nature inspires the creative impulse, showing all the wonders of the cyclical process of life and death from growth to decay, and returns us to the elemental forces of our own existence. Co-curators Kim Power and Melanie Vote have invited thirty-one artists working in the mediums of paint, photography, thread, and mixed media, to stand as a representation of the synthesis of environment and materiality through their own individual creative expressions.
 

For more information, contact the Shirley Fiterman Art Center at (212)-776-5631 or  ShirleyFitermanArtCenter@bmcc.cuny.edu.

Artwork displayed:

Train, 2012
Aron Wiesenfeld
Oil on canvas

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