Extraction/Interaction

Monday, September 9–Thursday, December 5, 2024

Extraction/Interaction considers how grief can transform artistic practice into a mechanism for positive environmental impact through the work of three contemporary artists—Will Wilson, Eliza Evans, and John Sabraw. Extraction, a word that calls to mind histories of environmental degradation, displacement of Indigenous peoples, and the removal of natural resources for profit, is the conceptual thread uniting these artists’ work: Wilson’s photographs of abandoned uranium mines on Navajo lands expose and seek to remediate it; Evans’ organizing against fracking companies through mineral rights redistribution resist it; and Sabraw’s pigments made from toxins removed from polluted rivers in deindustrialized areas reappropriate it. These artistic interactions with extraction demonstrate the urgency and potential of creative inquiry into our time’s most pressing existential challenge.

Extraction/Interaction is open for viewing at the Curb Center Monday–Thursday, 10:00 am–4:00 pm and by appointment. Contact Rachel Thompson to make an appointment or schedule a course visit.