Rochester, N.Y., August 2, 2019--The George Eastman Museum will offer two renegade tours of its exhibition, Tanya Marcuse: Woven on Thursday, August 8 and Saturday, October 5. Each tour will include a guided tour of the exhibition, with the Curator in Charge of the Department of Photography, Lisa Hostetler, followed by a discussion in the museum’s gardens with Landscape Manager, Dan Bellavia.
Renegade Tour: Woven in the Gallery and the Garden
Thursday, August 8, 6 p.m., Project Gallery & Gardens
Curator in Charge of the Department of Photography Lisa Hostetler and Landscape Manager Dan Bellavia will discuss the flora and fauna found in Tanya Marcuse's exhibition Woven. The tour will start in the gallery and then move out to the gardens to discuss what blooms can be found at the museum this season. Free to members, $10 general, $5 students.
Renegade Tour: Woven in the Gallery and the Garden
Saturday, October 5, 1p.m., Project Gallery & Gardens
Curator in Charge of the Department of Photography Lisa Hostetler and Landscape Manager Dan Bellavia will discuss the flora and fauna found in Tanya Marcuse's exhibition Woven. The tour will start in the gallery and then move out to the gardens to discuss what blooms can be found at the museum this season. Free to members; included with museum admission
About the exhibition
Tanya Marcuse: Woven (on view through January 5, 2020)
The exhibition features Marcuse’s latest series of photographs, Woven, which expands on the artist’s long fascination with cycles of growth and decay in the natural world. Her work features flora and fauna gathered from her immediate surroundings and composed into striking arrangements that suggest the abstract, large-scale paintings of Jackson Pollock and the symbolism of medieval tapestries. There are seven photographs on display in the exhibition, that range in size from three feet high and eight feet wide to five feet high and 13 feet wide. One of the works was created specifically for this exhibition. To create these massive images, Marcuse begins by collecting plant, animal, and mineral minutiae and arranging them on a custom-built structure she designed for this project. The visually rich all-over compositions are teeming with overripe fruit, insect carcasses, bright blooms, living creatures, and other Boschian delights (and terrors). She tends the “living garden” as it evolves, changing colors and form until it feels resolved both visually and conceptually.
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