January 23–March 6, 2015
Reception and opening talk with the artist:
Friday, January 23, 4:30–7:30pm
Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery Haverford College
370 Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, PA 19041
T +1 610 896 1287
In Sea Change, celebrated Philadelphia photographer Zoe Strauss traces the landscape of post-climate change America. In photographs, vinyl prints, and projected images, Strauss treads the extended aftermath of three ecological disasters: Hurricane Katrina in the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2005); the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Southern Louisiana (2010); and Hurricane Sandy in Toms River, NJ, and Staten Island, NY (2012). Lush and leveled landscapes; graffiti pleas and words of encouragement—Strauss’s camera captures lives decimated and dusting off: the fast and slow tragedies of global warming, the damage we can repair, and the damage we can’t.
Publication
The exhibition is accompanied by a publication designed by Random Embassy, Philadelphia, featuring essays by artist Zoe Strauss; The New Yorker contributing writer Mattathias Schwartz; Helen K. White, PhD, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Haverford College; and a poem by Thomas Devaney, MFA, PEW Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry, Haverford College.
Public programs
Gallery talk with artist Zoe Strauss, Mattathias Schwartz, and Helen K. White
Friday, January 23, 2015, 4:30–5:30pm
Sea Change is made possible with support from the John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Mellon Creative Residencies Program.
Press contact
Matthew Seamus Callinan, Associate Director, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery and Campus Exhibitions: [email protected]
