Mandeville Gallery
Of Weeds and Wildness
Nature in Black & White

Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial
January 13, 2011 - March 13, 2011


Of Weeds and Wildness: Nature in Black & White is a group exhibition featuring work by over a dozen artists including Louise Bourgeois, Lee Bontecou, Arnold Bittleman, Harold Edgerton, William Kentridge, Kiki Smith, and James Siena, among others. The show explores the subtle, nuanced, intriguing, and sometimes disquieting approaches to nature by these artists in their work: photographs, prints, drawings, and digital works without color.  Through a vast range of styles and approaches, the black and white works in this show explore thoughts and questions about the human relationship to the natural world and the myriad complexities of the human mind, while simultaneously revealing the richly expressive power of black and white imagery.

Curated by Sally Apfelbaum and Rachel Seligman

Artists include: Robert Adams, Desirée Alvarez, Arnold Bittleman, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, Harold Edgerton, Robert Gober, William Kentridge, Hedya Klein, Danny Lyon, Abelardo Morell, Margaret Moulton, Michelle Segre, James Siena, Kiki Smith, Charles Steckler and Kate Temple

EVENTS

Lunchtime Curators' Tour
with curators Sally Apfelbaum and Rachel Seligman
Tuesday, January 18, 12 - 2 pm, Nott Memorial

Exhibition Reception and Gallery Talk
with Desiree Alvares, Hedya Klein, Charles Steckler, Kate Temple, and others
Thursday, February 10, 5 - 7 pm, Nott Memorial

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Hairy Spider
Louise Bourgeois, Hairy Spider
Flying Fish
Harold Edgerton, Flying Fish
Untitled
Charles Steckler, Untitled
Untitled from Turning Back: A Photographic Journey of Re-exploration
Robert Adams, Untitled from Turning Back: A Photographic Journey of Re-exploration