{"id":83987,"date":"2017-08-25T13:29:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T17:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=83987"},"modified":"2017-08-25T13:29:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T17:29:07","slug":"geology-and-art-collide-in-fall-exhibit-at-the-schweinfurth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=83987","title":{"rendered":"Geology and art collide in fall exhibit at the Schweinfurth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Laura Moriarty, Landslide, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Schweinfurth Art Center\u2019s fall exhibitions, which open Friday, Sept. 1, from 5 to 8 p.m., feature a variety of artists who are inspired by geology. In the solo exhibition titled Bedrock Revealed: Geologic Landscapes,\u00a0Jonathon Wells, uses scientific data from mining, wells, and other drilling activities to create photo composites that show the interplay between the civilization on the surface and the bedrock below.<\/p>\n

Wells\u2019 background as a geologist and skills as a photographer allows him to accurately portray the rock beneath cities such as Boston, New York, St. Paul and Minneapolis. These visualizations are both aesthetically beautiful and thought-provoking, as they show the unseen ways humans mark the earth. Wells will be giving a lecture detailing his process, research, and the science behind the photographs at 5 p.m. during the opening reception Sept. 1.<\/p>\n

Another exhibit titled Underlying Factors: Artists Inspired by Geology, features the work of Geoffrey Booras, Laura Moriarty and Lauren Rosenthal. Booras is a sculptor whose work examines the relationships between science, technology and nature. His work includes ceramic interpretations of massive drill bits used in oil and gas exploration and mining petrochemicals. He also experiments with Marcellus Shale as a medium, speaking\u00a0to the overuse of fossil fuels in the context of geologic time.<\/p>\n

Moriarty makes process-driven sculptural\u00a0paintings and sculptures using an encaustic (wax) medium whose forms, colors, textures, and patterns result\u00a0from the same processes that shape and reshape the earth: heating and cooling, erosion, subduction, friction,\u00a0enfolding, weathering and slippage. Rosenthal’s prints, drawings, and mixed media works interpret<\/p>\n

Rosenthal’s prints, drawings, and mixed media works interpret\u00a0hydrological data created by cutting away layers of ground, evoking the process by which rivers mark the landscape. Map-like, the work exposes the relationship between rivers and the built environment we have created, and the resulting paths for these waterways.<\/p>\n

In Gallery Julius, The Disappearing Tiny Beasts of My Imaginings by Ellen Haffar will also be on view. Haffar’s\u00a0pieces celebrate those tiny, spineless beasts in peril from environmental threats – bees, butterflies and\u00a0fireflies.<\/p>\n

The Schweinfurth Art Center is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

Schweinfurth Art Center programs are supported by the New York State Council for the Arts with the support\u00a0of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature. For more information about the Schweinfurth Art Center, visit myartcenter.com or call 315-255-1553.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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