Anthropocene, detail, 2022, photo courtesy of artist
Karen Lené Rudd
Anthropocene
March 18, 2022 - May 6 , 2022
We are ending this show earlier than advertised.
Unfortunately, Covid-19 has hit home, and we will not be open this 1st Thursday May 5th or Friday May 6th as originally planned.
Stay well and healthy!
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April 7th
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The Anthropocene is an unofficial geological epoch defined by the profound and visible impact of human activity on planet Earth. The epoch began, some say, in the 1800s in the Industrial Revolution in the United States and Europe when industry and mechanization fueled by capitalism started altering the atmosphere with climate-changing emissions, such as methane and carbon.
This installation looks back to the Industrial Revolution and the ordinary people who, often unwittingly, launched and participated in practices that created the environmental catastrophes we see today, from historic floods and wildfires to deforestation and extinction events. What has changed since then? How different are they from us? What did they know and when did they know it?
The paper clothes were sewn on antique sewing machines in kraft paper from a mill in Washington State and in apparel designs worn by workers. Many quotes typewritten on the garments are from conservation textbooks from the 1960s, and the calligraphy alludes to promises made and promises broken.
The wall-mounted miniature tableaus are created from trash, including cardboard and plastics from packaging and consumer electronics. The miniatures are not only an imagined skyline but represent the geological stratum of the Anthropocene preserved forever in the rock layers of our planet.
This installation looks back to the Industrial Revolution and the ordinary people who, often unwittingly, launched and participated in practices that created the environmental catastrophes we see today, from historic floods and wildfires to deforestation and extinction events. What has changed since then? How different are they from us? What did they know and when did they know it?
The paper clothes were sewn on antique sewing machines in kraft paper from a mill in Washington State and in apparel designs worn by workers. Many quotes typewritten on the garments are from conservation textbooks from the 1960s, and the calligraphy alludes to promises made and promises broken.
The wall-mounted miniature tableaus are created from trash, including cardboard and plastics from packaging and consumer electronics. The miniatures are not only an imagined skyline but represent the geological stratum of the Anthropocene preserved forever in the rock layers of our planet.
Anthropocene, detail, 2022, photo courtesy of artist
ARTIST BIO
With a background in biology and journalism, Karen Lené Rudd’s installation work and sculptures explore the relationship between humanity and the natural environment. Working largely with discarded and commonplace materials, such as cardboard, paper and plastics, and using recognizable imagery, Karen strives to create work that is accessible and ties our collective past to the present.
Her work has been shown at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, Museum of Northwest Art in LaConner, Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, Bumbershoot and Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle, and she in the recipient of grants and awards through Artist Trust, 4Culture, Centrum Foundation, Collective Visions Gallery, Ford Motor Company and Vermont Studio Center.
She lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
For more information about the artist: Instagram @karenlenrudd or
https://karenlenerudd.com
PRESS
Crosscut.: ArtSEA: A new dreamer splashes down in South Lake Union. Pl,us, ghosts of industry in Pioneer Square and April well-versed poetry.
ArtZone with Nancy Guppy: 4/15/2022
With a background in biology and journalism, Karen Lené Rudd’s installation work and sculptures explore the relationship between humanity and the natural environment. Working largely with discarded and commonplace materials, such as cardboard, paper and plastics, and using recognizable imagery, Karen strives to create work that is accessible and ties our collective past to the present.
Her work has been shown at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco, Museum of Northwest Art in LaConner, Whatcom Museum in Bellingham, Bumbershoot and Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle, and she in the recipient of grants and awards through Artist Trust, 4Culture, Centrum Foundation, Collective Visions Gallery, Ford Motor Company and Vermont Studio Center.
She lives on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
For more information about the artist: Instagram @karenlenrudd or
https://karenlenerudd.com
PRESS
Crosscut.: ArtSEA: A new dreamer splashes down in South Lake Union. Pl,us, ghosts of industry in Pioneer Square and April well-versed poetry.
ArtZone with Nancy Guppy: 4/15/2022
Anthropocene, detail, 2022, photo courtesy of artist
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Anthropocene, detail, 2022, photo courtesy of artist
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