Cartographic Imagination/An Atlas
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 19th, 1-3pm The twin exhibitions Cartographic Imagination: Mapping in Contemporary California Art and An Atlas unfold the beauty, mystery and hidden meanings behind maps, on display simultaneously. The 28 works help find the way about a range of a host of environmental and social issues from all angles, including criminal justice, human rights, politics and more.
Cartographic Imagination
Cartographic Imagination is a new show exploring maps as both image and cipher, in media including photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, new technologies, performance and installation. The exhibition intends to expand the long history of the conceptual use of mapping in art into 21st century expressions and practice.
Curators: Mark Dean Johnson, Sharon Bliss and students in the Art Department’s Exhibition Design course
Faculty adviser: Paula Levine
Participating artists
- Michael Arcega
- Adriane Colburn
- Russell Crotty
- Sergio De La Torre with Karla Claudio Betancourt, Dina Roumiantseva, Wenhua Shi, Rosario Alicia Sotelo and Chris Treggiari
- Amanda Hughen and Jennifer Starkweather
- Paula Levine
- Kate Pocrass
- Steve Roden
- Lordy Rodriguez
- Chris Sollars
An Atlas
An Atlas is a traveling exhibition of artists working with “radical cartography”—a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement linking art, geography and activism. The participating artists, architects and collectives play with cartographic conventions—geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views—to take on issues from globalization to garbage.
Curators: Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat
Participating artists
- An Architektur
- Center for Urban Pedagogy
- Jacqueline Goss
- Ashley Hunt
- Institute for Applied Autonomy
- Invisible-5
- Pedro Lasch
- Lize Mogel
- Trevor Paglen and John Emerson
- Brooke Singer
- Jane Tsong
- Unnayan
