A particularly magnificent detail of Scott Robert Hudson's Wild Horses.
An installation view of Wild Horses, possibly a companion piece to his 2007 installation at the UNI Gallery of Art, which was titled Bison.
Another detail of Hudson's Wild Horses.
Yesterday, I made a road trip to Grinnell, Iowa to see the latest work by my colleagues/friends Scott Robert Hudson and Margaret Whiting. It was a beautiful summer day and the right opportunity to once again engage in the ideas they consistently espouse - human interaction with wildlife and landscape as well as human cultural clashes that have impacted social development through the ages.
Hudson states that this latest installation is about "the socio-ecology of the North American wild horse herds, the atmospherics of the Paleolithic caves of Southern France, and the human drama of the Ghost Dance." Whiting says her exhibition addresses "deforestation and the ways human laws help and hinder environmental protection, the connections between human health and the land, and the patterns and systems that connect us all." Each presentation is distinct but together in the same space they create a rousing dialogue about authority, influence, and enterprise. The Great Themes!
Hudson's Wild Horses, Whiting's Environmental Concerns, and Lorna Bieber's From a Distance run through Sept. 8, 2013 at the lovely Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.
An installation view of Deforestation, which is an iteration of a piece presented in 2011 at the UNI Gallery of Art in a group invitational exhibition titled What You Will.
A Whiting collage.
