EAR TO THE GROUND: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art
On view through August 31, 2019
New Orleans Museum of Art
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Working with natural elements like earth, wind, water and fire, the artists featured in this group exhibition show how nature can spur artistic innovation and spark new thinking about human culture and community. Drawn predominantly from the New Orleans Museum of Art’s permanent collection, “Ear to the Ground” features works by 18 artists across vastly different media, cultures and time periods which each reference earth and element in very different ways.
“Using earth both as a material and an inspiration, the artists in this exhibition treat nature as a metaphor for the complexities of contemporary cultural life,” said Susan Taylor, NOMA’s Montine McDaniel Freeman Director. “Their art envisions new ways we might relate to the natural world, as well as to one another.”
Image: Olafur Eliasson, The Hinged View, 2017, Steel, glass and paint, 59 x 106 3/8 x 29 ½ inches, New Orleans Museum of Art, Museum Purchase with funds provided by Sydney and Walda Besthoff, 2017.23 ©Courtesy of the Artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
