EcoSpirits


Monica Cook
Audrey Dananai
Mark Dorf
Devra Freelander
Hugh Hayden
Kristin Lucas
David Nyzio


January 23 - March 6, 2021




Kristin Lucas, AI project, 2021




Postmasters is pleased to announce EcoSpirits - an exhibition of art in all media that exist in the cross-section of environmental concerns and nature-infused spirituality, marking the uneasy threesome of man, nature, and technology.

There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
there is rapture on the lonely shore,
there is society where none intrudes,
by the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
- Lord Byron

The artists in the show fuse organic and digital forms, narratives, and processes. Man's inextricable place in the chain is between nature and technology. The balance and perspective, the wins and the losses, are defined by our moment in time, and the context of a larger understanding of human intervention into the gift that is planet Earth. From the analytical to the emphatically emotional, from the coolly rational to the spiritual, these works assess our place in the world.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
- Werner Heisenberg

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Artworks in the show:

Monica Cook - blown glass magical plants, and a hollow human form that appears to be either a relic of the stone age or a remnant of future annihilation.

Audrey Dananai - ceramic objects, far from the idea of vase or vessel typical of the medium, and closer to skeletons/ribs/spines as abstracted essences of being.

Mark Dorf - a group of works that combine photography and digital media, updating the field of nature photography into a post-analog experience.

Devra Freelander (1990-2019), a sculpture of collapsing puddle form, referencing Gaussian curves and black holes. A Google Earth video with a cursor tracing/ embracing Antarctic landscape, and abstract fluorescent fragments, glowing otherworldly objects.

Devra was a sculptor, a printmaker, a video artist, and a bubbling fountain of positivity who lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explored geology and climate change from a millennial and ecofeminist perspective.

Hugh Hayden - everyday objects transformed into dysfunction as nature fights for its survival: a wooden school desk overtaken by twigs and thorns.

Kristin Lucas - video animation about the machine learning and perils of miscommunication, the artist attempts to teach/collaborate with an Artificial Intelligence entity to save the planet but- spoiler alert- destroys it in the end...

David Nyzio - OG of organic materials and processes employed to create sculptural objects: butterfly wings and shaved charcoal squares reformulated into abstract grids, light bulbs made of polished coal, a hollowed floating tree trunk.





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Ecospirit
installation view

Ecospirit
installation view

Ecospirit
installation view

Ecospirit
installation view

Ecospirit
installation view

Monica Cook
Snowsuit
2014
wax, pigment, fur coats, aqua resin, fiberglass
28 x 40 x 30 inches
Devra Freelander
Touching Antarctica
2016
digital screen-capture performance
running time: 00:27:08 min
Audrey Dananai
Coiling Little Loves
2020
ceramic
11 x 16 x 8 inches
27.5 x 40.5 x 20.5 cm
Monica Cook
Figure with Tiger
2021
blown borosilicate glass
10 x 9 x 11 inches
25.5 x 23 x 28 cm
Monica Cook
Protection
2021
blown borosilicate glass,silver chain, sea anemone spine, pigment
8 x 4 x 8 inches
20.5 x 10 x 20.5 cm
Monica Cook
Seed to Soil
2021
blown borosilicate glass,concrete,mirroring solution,pigment,bismuth
3.5 x 18 x 7 inches
9 x 46 x 18 cm
Hugh Hayden
Navient
2021
firt
36 x 26 x 25 inches
91.5 x 66 x 63.5 cm
Devra Freelander
Fluorescent Fragment 12
2018
epoxy resin
46.5 x 25 x 3 inches
118 x 63.5 x 7.5 cm
David Nyzio
Structural Orientation
1995
morpho mega butterfly wings, steel
24.5 x 24.5 inches
David Nyzio
Mirror Target #1
2014
charcoal on panel, wood
67.5 x 62 x 2 inches
171.5 x 157.5 x 5 cm
David Nyzio
Mirror Target #1 detail
2014
charcoal on panel, wood
David Nyzio
Hollowed Ash #3
2019
ash log, string
26 x 55 x 55 inches
66 x 140 x 140 cm
David Nyzio
Hollowed Ash #3
2019
ash log, string
26 x 55 x 55 inches
66 x 140 x 140 cm
Mark Dorf
Layered
2020
archival dye sublimation print
20 x 35 inches
edition of 3 + 1 AP
Mark Dorf
Reciprocity
2020
archival dye sublimation print
32 x 40 inches
edition of 3 + 1 AP
Mark Dorf
Source
2020
archival dye sublimation print
20 x 25 inches
edition of 3 + 1 AP
Kristin Lucas
What if birds wish they could run?
2021
single channel video animation, color, sound
running time: edition of 3 + AP
Devra Freelander
Gaussian Blue
2015
epoxy resin, fiberglass
40 x 40 x 12 inches
101.5 x 101.5 x 30.5 cm
David Nyzio
Light Bulbs 300 w
2012
coal, steel shelf
10 x 14 x 10 inches
25.5 x 35.5 x 25.5 cm
Audrey Dananai
Three Coils
2020
ceramic
8 x 12 x 9.5 inches