Join the Department of Art, Art History, and Design for a lecture by artist and walkthrough critic for the MFA open studios, Claire Pentecost, on March 16 at 7 pm in room 200, Riley Hall.
Claire Pentecost is an artist and writer who researches the living matters of the unified multi-dimensional being that animates the critical zone of our planet. Her soil-erg project of 2012 considered the material of soil as a commodity, proposing a soil-based currency system. Pentecost’s work is driven by research and inspired by questions of form. She advocates for the role of the amateur in the production and interpretation of knowledge, while a longstanding interest in nature and artificiality predicates her recent responses to anthropogenic climate change. Pentecost has exhibited work nationally and internationally at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany; 13th Istanbul Biennial; White Chapel, London; 3rd Mongolian Land Art Biennial; MCA Chicago; MSU Broad Museum; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Higher Pictures, New York; Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC; Milwaukee Art Museum; Transmediale 05, Berlin; and American Fine Arts, New York; and many others. Pentecost is Professor of Photography, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Originally published at artdept.nd.edu.