Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present, Future)

February 2 July 20, 2019

Co-curated by Erin Espelie and Hope Saska

CU Art Museum

“Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present, Future) considered how our observation of natural worlds is influenced by measures of time and representations of form. From the tectonic to the technological, from the single-celled to the systemic, environments exist in a state of flux that can be studied and interpreted by a scientist or an artist. The exhibition brought together diverse ranges of materials and observers, spanning historical and contemporary eras. Finely detailed Renaissance botanical publications, sweeping Romantic era landscape painting, late 19th and early 20th-century scientific photo-documentation of glaciers and contemporary works that visualize complex datasets are composed from soot, silver, wool, wood, ink, pixels, and more.”