May 6 - June 17, 2023
The MAC:
“The MAC is pleased to announce I Make My Own Weather – an exhibition of work by Bonny Leibowitz and a video installation by Gabriela Morawetz. The exhibition will be on view May 6th — June 17th, 2023, at the gallery’s main location, 1503 S. Ervay Street.
An opening reception will be held Saturday, May 13th from 6 – 9 PM.
The gallery is open weekly, Wednesday through Saturday, 12 – 5 PM.
Leibowitz’s work utilizes and expounds upon the landscape painting traditions of idealized histories, such as the Hudson River School, Romanticism and the Baroque. The installations act as deconstructed paintings, as though walking through fragments of represented landscapes. In these worlds, synthetic materials masquerade as natural, and the natural as synthetic; a tree root painted epoxy green, an Astro turf tarp in the shape of a pond, a peeling away of a blue sky. Painted and photographic images hang, float, or drape on the floor. 3D objects; a cascading wave, a chunk of earth, jut from the wall. The material confusions in the work reveal the facade of the image; the conventional idea of humans as outside the natural world, and nature as pristine and untouched. Such ideologies are collapsed by the realities of the climate crisis.
These installations indulge the beauty of the depicted landscape, side by side with its own shattered mythology. If a painting is a complete world, this work both embodies that world and points to its falseness.”
Reception: May 13, 2023 | 6–9 pm
McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC)
1503 South Ervay Street
Dallas, 75215 TX
214-953-1212
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