Sampada Aranke

collapse: recent works by dewey crumpler

Hedreen Gallery
March 15- May 19, 2018

Collapse considers the beauty and terror of financial systems and their ecological, social, and aesthetic impacts. These works take on the disturbances of potential catastrophe, rendering the container as the locus of awe, wonder, destruction, and fear. In these works, Crumpler asks us to consider how goods transported globally via ships and ports might open up other histories of destruction and creation. By citing aesthetic practices that range from religious iconography to dreamscapes of ruin, Crumpler lays bare the connective tissues between past, present, and impending futures of collapse.

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Public Events

• Public conversation at the Hedreen Gallery (April 12, 2018)

Publications

• Exhibition publication featuring essays from Jed Murr (University of Washington, Bothell) and Benjamin Jones (Northwestern University)

Press Coverage

• Charles Mudede, “An Art Show That's Like Those Special Sunglasses, Revealing the World As It Really Is,” The Stranger, March 28, 2018

• Jasmine Mahmoud, “Port Urbanism, Blackness, and the Shipping Crate in ‘Collapse: Works by Dewey Crumpler’ — a conversation with curator Sampada Aranke,” April 12, 2018

• Thea Tagle, “Collapse: Dewey Crumpler’s Alpha and Omega,” April 24, 2018