Press Release
The Bruce Museum in Greenwich, CT is the first venue to showcase Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’ Underworld, a new traveling exhibition surveying 30 years of both artists’work, now open and on view through August 27, 2023. The exhibition is the first two-
Both Dion and Rockman have achieved international prominence for their own distinctive practices. Together they have embarked on tropical expeditions; published dialogues; and coedited the pioneering 1996 book Concrete Jungle, on anthropogenic ecosystems. Each has probed humankind’ strained relationship with the environment and the consequences of reigning ideologies about nature.
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The Bruce Museum is the only venue on this nationwide tour to feature a new, collaborative installation mining the Museum’ extensive holdings and archival material devoted to founding curators and naturalists Edward F. Bigelow and Paul G. Howes. Comprised of dioramas, microscopes, personal items, artwork, and photographic scrapbooks, as well as taxidermy and mineral specimens, this cabinet of curiosity charts both the history of the Museum and the evolving trajectory of its natural history and science collections.
Margarita Karasoulas, the Bruce Museum’ Curator of Art, notes “oth artists’practices are rooted in scientific concerns and probe humankind’ relationship to nature. Together, the artists not only grapple with the most pressing issues of our time related to global warming and environmental and ecological change but also interrogate the very history of the scientific discipline. We are particularly thrilled to work with both artists to realize a cabinet of curiosities showcasing an array of objects from the Museum’ collection.”
Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’ Underworld is organized by the American Federation of Arts and curated by Suzanne Ramljak. Support for the exhibition has been provided by Elizabeth Belfer and Victoria E. Triplett.
This exhibition was organized by the American Federation of Arts and will travel to the following venues:
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Image 1: The Department of Tropical Research: jungle field station, 2017, at The Drawing Center, NY, 2017. Photo: Martin Parsekian. Image 2: Nature Morte, 2018. Image 3: Institute for Invertebrate Marine Biology, 2017. Image 4: Installation View, Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature's Underworld, The Bruce Museum, 2023. Image 5: Mark Dion & Alexis Rockman, American Landscape, 2022, fabricated by Aaron Delehanty and Loud Cow Studio.
Courtesy the artists and American Federation of Arts. Photo: Walter Colley; Post-
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