Join us on Thursday, January 18 at 5 p.m. in the Quick Center for the Arts’ Kelley Theatre for the opening lecture of Streaming: Sculpture by Christy Rupp. Artist Christy Rupp will share reflections from her decades-long career as an eco-artist.

Rupp’s talk is presented as part of the Edwin L. Wiesel Jr. Lectureships in Art History, funded by the Robert Lehman Foundation

About the exhibition:

Understood as one of the early pioneers in the field of ecological art activism, the artist, activist and thought-leader Christy Rupp has an international reputation. Streaming will feature a survey of Rupp’s intricate collages, wall installations and free-standing sculpture, which chronicle the ongoing tension between natural systems and the environment in transition, and call our attention to our interconnectedness with non-humans and habitat – transmuting detritus gathered from the waste stream through collage and sculpture to reveal what is hidden away from common view and understanding. Informed by science and the historical representation of natural history, the artwork in this exhibition examines the way we frame our opinions of nature, using irony and wit to represent the human impact on our natural habitat.

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Image: Christy Rupp, Aquatic Larvae, 2020, welded steel and collected single use plastics. © Christy Rupp