Joanne Aono, Christine Forni, and Deanna Krueger Artist Talk
@ Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University
1 University Parkway, University Park, IL 60484
Opening Thursday, April 6th, from 12PM - 2PM
On view through Friday, April 7th
Joanne Aono, Christine Forni, and Deanna Krueger
In Reciprocity: Humans & Nature
Visual Arts Gallery, Governors State University
1 University Parkway, University Park, Illinois 60484
Closing Reception and Artists’ Talk: Thursday, April 6, 2023 at Noon
Free and open to the public, refreshments provided
On view: March 8 – April 7, 2023
“How, in our modern world, can we find our way to understand the earth as a gift again, to make our relations with the world sacred again?”
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer, from “Braiding Sweetgrass; Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants”
Curated by Sherri Denault
The ghostly, dreamlike, floating images by Joanne Aono, the photograms utilizing plant fossils and animal bones, and compositions on glass by Christine Forni, and the mixed media pieces inspired by microscopic cellular structures, or macroscopic images of Earth’s terrain by Deanna Krueger, come together in the Visual Arts Gallery to find a way back to the Sacred Earth. This art is inspired by agriculture, herbalism, preservation, and the notion that all life is intertwined, and it investigates the ordinary to find the fascinating, the present moment to reveal the long distant past, and mixed media materials to embody universal experience.
Exhibition Dates: March 8 – April 7, 2023
Gallery Hours: 9am-3pm Mon, Weds, Thurs, Fri
11am-4pm Tues
Other times by appointment and availability jstevenson@govst.edu
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