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Renwick Invitational 2020
Forces of Nature
The Renwick Invitational is a biennial juried showcase for midcareer and emerging craft artists who deserve wider recognition. The makers selected for Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 -- Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore, and Rowland Ricketts -- explore how craft's complex relationship with the natural world helps us understand our place in the order of things. This feels especially important right now during a transformative global pandemic, when nature can provide us necessary refuge, understanding, and hope. It also exposes a shared resilience. The cycles remain -- spring turns to summer, summer turns to fall -- and we, too, find ways to move forward, even imperfectly.
For these artists, nature and art serve to reframe perspectives while offering release. Fensterstock looks to prophetic weather events, while Horn fuses nature and culture by linking the style of European courts with biological drawings of lichen and coral. Moore's suite of flowering glass trees is informed by her personal exploration of the natural world, and Ricketts's indigo-dyed installations begin with planting, harvesting, and composting. |