Various types of information related to Harvey are stitched onto the quilt, including Twitter messages that were sent out during the storm,” she says. “The inner quilt is made up of shapes that map out income distribution in Houston and uses the city’s highway system as a visual anchor. “Harvey’s Twitter SOS,” for example, translates 2017 data maps about Hurricane Harvey published by The New York Times. The type of data she collects is both statistical and anecdotal, combining scientific inquiry with personal experiences. “That’s when I began to look at extreme weather events such as floods, storms, and fires.”īasketweaving plays a central role in Miebach’s practice as it both physically and metaphorically weaves together materials and information. Over time, I began to be more interested not in how weather instruments record weather, but how we as a species respond to it,” she tells Colossal. “ Each piece began with a specific question I had and then the sculpture would attempt to answer it. In 2007, when she first began to make works that explored weather and climate change, she wanted to better understand the science. All images © Nathalie Miebach, shared with permissionįor Boston-based artist Nathalie Miebach, art is a way to translate scientific data into a visual language of patterns and relationships. “Harvey’s Twitter SOS” (2019), paper, wood, vinyl, and data, 84 x 108 x 12 inches.
Young Lords and Their Traces is on view through February 2, 2023, and you can pre-order the monograph on Bookshop. He describes the latter as a “memorial to the history of labor and the ways in which labor is a beautiful, spiritual way of transmitting energy.” Objects like the library of the late Russian film and literature scholar Robert Bird and a tar kettle gifted by the artist’s father highlight Gates’ desire for care, conservation, and interpreting the everyday.
For the past two decades, much of Gates’ practice has revolved around shared knowledge and the idea that archiving is an act of devotion, a sentiment echoed in his transformation of a dilapidated South Side bank into a renowned art center and also throughout the exhibition. Its title pays homage to the radical, revolutionary thinkers who profoundly impacted American culture, and an entire floor is filled with references to the artist’s aesthetic and intellectual influences, including curator Okwui Enwezor and writer bell hooks.
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