Artists: Eurhi Jones, Narendra Haynes, Bassem Yousri
Eco/Systems: Gather continues to build on Asian Arts Initiative’s yearlong exploration of contemporary climate movements. The season started with a group exhibition of fifteen artists and collectives to exhibit their works that contemplate their relationship to place. We’ve since invited our audience to swap seeds, to make tinctures, and to consider their own place in the land, the sky, the sea, and with each other. As we complete one trip around the sun contemplating Eco/Systems, we present a three-person exhibition that will unearth the themes of fall & winter: of harvesting, of gathering, of death and decomposition.
Asian Arts Initiative presents three artists whose works embody these themes. Bassem Yousri presents a sculptural work sourced from the waste stream, during his time as an artist-in-residence at the Recycled Artist-in-Residence (RAIR). Narendra Haynes, also a RAIR resident, presents two works from his Styrofoam & Mealworms body of work, an active ecosystem of decomposition. And Eurhi Jones presents a participatory sculpture, inviting audience members to contribute to a growing organism made up of discarded plastics.
Please join us October 13th for the exhibit's reception and artist talk.
Curated by Dave Kyu.
Funding for this exhibition was provided in part by The Mellon Foundation & The Ford Foundation.