Exhibition: DISordered Systems
The arts can offer a path for renewal through visual and responsive engagement.
EcoHope must exist alongside EcoDespair, but the arts can offer a path for renewal through visual and responsive engagement. The artist-activists in this exhibition are intercessors and illuminators — whether the work is conceptual, allegorical or metaphorical, or representational and specific — who examine and address systemic environmental failure through remediation, confrontation, education, personal lived actions of the artist, or simply by drawing attention and asking the viewer to respond. Curated by J. Susan Isaacs and Erin Lehman.
On view January 27—April 15, 2023 Closed for Spring Break March 19-26, 2023 Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11 a.m.—8 p.m.Artists: Diane Burko (Pennsylvania), Allison Janae Hamilton (New York), Basia Irland (New Mexico), and Mallory Zondag (New York).
Opening reception Thursday, February 9, from 7:30 - 9 p.m. following a lecture by featured artist Diane Burko entitled “From Painting the Landscape to Investigating the Environment in the Amazon Rainforest” in CA 2032 at 6:30 p.m.
Lecture by TU Department of Biological Sciences Professor Brian Fath entitled “How ecological systems complexify and diversify through win-win interactions” Thursday, March 2, in CA 2032 at 6:30 p.m.
This exhibition and related programming supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council.Installation Views
Individual Artworks
Lecture by Artist Mallory Zondag
Conversation with Artist Allison Janae Hamilton
Watch a pre-recorded conversation between artist Allison Janae Hamilton and Karin Campbell, Phil Willson Curator of Contemporary Art. "Allison Janae Hamilton: Recent Works" was on view in the Karen and Doug Riley Contemporary Artists Project (CAP) Gallery at Joslyn Art Museum January 5–May 1, 2022.
Lecture by Artist Diane Burko
Lecture by Dr. Brian Fath, TU Department of Biological Sciences
Presentation by Teresa Westhead, Native Plant Specialist, Towson Landscape Services
Towson University Ice Book Project
Towson University Ice Book Project Video