ASU sculptors exhibit “Separation Anxiety”
Who:    Sculpture students and their instructors from ASU’s Herberger College of Fine Arts
 
Title:     Separation Anxiety: an exhibition examining our uneasy relationship with the natural world
 
What:  Art exhibition, refreshments, performance and video.
 
When:   Fri., Nov. 18, 6:30-10:30 p.m.; Sat., Nov. 19, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. The Friday reception is a great opportunity to mingle with the artists during this limited engagement. Attire is casual. There will be a surprise exhibition preview in the Cathedral Room on November Friday, Nov. 4, from 7-10 in connection witht Phoneix First Fridays Event.
 
Where:  The Ice House, 429 West Jackson, Phoenix.
 
Cost:    FREE
 
Contact:  Professor Mary Bates Neubauer, mary.neubauer@asu.edu
 
Downtown Phoenix's Ice House, 429 West Jackson, hosts a two-day-only exhibition of new sculptural works from some of ASU's best emerging artists.  Nearly 20 major works will be on display throughout several rooms in the Ice House's industrial complex.
 
A wide range of sculptural media and conceptual explorations are represented in this exhibition.  All examine the sometimes uneasy relationships human society has with the natural world.  A kinetic work by Marco Rosichelli features a large flock of whistling birds.  Allison Young's fiber art emulates microscopic bundles of viral material realized at a monumental scale. Eric McMaster critiques the branding of the human soul through marketing, while Chloe Palmer examines the effects our demands have on nature.  The material presence of the human body emerges in Holly Curcio’s wax and clay figures and Damon McIntyre develops urban technological settings as landscape.
 
Other works draw on contemporary traditions in installation art and large scale tableau to construct thoughtful commentary on how today's civilizations co-exist and revere, yet can also act at odds with the natural world. Some artists draw directly from the eco-politics involved in the changing Arizona landscape, while others' ideas are derived from recent scientific, technical and genetic advances. The exhibition raises questions about how we see ourselves as part of, yet separated from, the world of nature.
 
The School of Art is a division of The Katherine K. Herberger College of Fine Arts at Arizona State University.