Installation view, Keeping Things Whole, works by Lisa Sanditz, Akira Ikezoe, and Caitlin MacBride.

Keeping Things Whole

SEPTEMBER 10 – OCTOBER 30, 2022

Christian Ruiz Berman

Keeping Things Whole features a group of artists considering human engagement with nature and its rhythms. We are interested in the idea that it is increasingly difficult—and has perhaps long been unproductive—to draw fixed boundaries between human activity and an untouched natural world. The works in this exhibition redirect the landscape painting tradition by highlighting the tools and narratives through which we document and seek to understand our environment. Insofar as we shape our landscape, the landscape shapes us. Embedded in ever-changing ecological systems, we are never physically or psychologically separate from the natural world. Keeping Things Whole borrows its title from a 1979 poem by Canadian-born writer Mark Strand:

In a field
I am the absence
of field.

This is
always the case.
Wherever I am
I am what is missing.

When I walk
I part the air
and always
the air moves in
to fill the spaces
where my body’s been.

We all have reasons
for moving. I move
to keep things whole.

Installation Images

Installation view, Keeping Things Whole, works by Lisa Sanditz, Akira Ikezoe, and Caitlin MacBride.
Installation view, Keeping Things Whole, works by Lisa Sanditz, Akira Ikezoe, Caitlin MacBride, and Christian Ruiz Berman.
Installation view, Keeping Things Whole, works by J.A Feng, Mariel Capanna, Mike Glier, and Joan Nelson.
Installation view, Keeping Things Whole, works by Mike Glier and Shaun O’Dell.
Installation view, Keeping Things Whole, works by Lisa Sanditz
Installation view, Keeping Things Whole, works by Pallavi Sen.
Installation view, Keeping Things Whole, works by Shaun O’Dell, Erica Mao, and Mike Glier.
Installation view, Keeping Things Whole, works by Shaun O_Dell, Erica Mao, and Sky Hopinka

Individual Artworks

Lisa Sanditz, Holiday Mud Hike, 2022, oil on canvas, 54 x 42 in
Lisa Sanditz, New Growth Wine Bottle 1, 2019, porcelain, stoneware, and glaze, 15 1/2 x 6 x 6 in.
Lisa Sanditz, New Growth Wine Bottle 2, 2019, porcelain, stoneware, and glaze, 11 1/2 x 6 x 6 in.
Mariel Capanna, Traffic Light, Steering Wheel, Knees, Lawn, 2022, oil, wax, and marble dust on panel, 20 x 16 in.
Pallavi Sen, Kites Flying across a Barsati with Celadon and Brick Walls, 2022, watercolor on paper, 16 x 24 in. unframed, 18 x 26 1/4 in. framed.
Pallavi Sen, Clothes Drying by the Guava Tree, 2022, watercolor on paper, 16 x 12 in. unframed, 18 x 14 1/4 in. framed.
Pallavi Sen, Mango Harvest, 2022, watercolor on paper, 16 x 12 in. unframed, 18 x 14 1/4 in. framed.
J.A Feng, Looper, 2022, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in.
Mike Glier, Buck Shedding Antlers, 2022, acrylic and charcoal on panel, 36 x 48 in. unframed, 37 x 49 framed.
Mike Glier, A light breeze through the last of the leaves in November v.4, 2020, pencil on Arches watercolor paper, 22 1/2 x 30 in. unframed. 27 x 34 1/2 in. framed.
Mike Glier, Robin Song v. 1, 2021, pencil on Arches watercolor paper, 34 1/4 x 27 in. framed.
Akira Ikezoe, Coconut Heads in the Sheep Farm, 2022, oil on canvas, 26 x 34 in.
Caitlin MacBride, Oyster Pool, 2022, oil on panel, 10 x 8 in.
Caitlin MacBride, Oyster Pool 3, 2022, oil on panel, 10 x 8 in.
Caitlin MacBride, Crab Pool, 2022, oil on panel, 16 x 20 in.
Christian Ruiz Berman, We Are Everything We Need, 2020, graphite on paper, 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. unframed, 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. framed.
Christian Ruiz Berman, Heartache Apparatus, 2020, graphite on paper, 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. unframed, 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. framed.
Christian Ruiz Berman, Huitzilin, 2020, graphite on paper, 7 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. unframed, 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 in. framed.
Erica Mao, a creeping suspicion, 2021, colored slip on stoneware, 6 x 9 1/4 x 1/2 in.
Erica Mao, shadow walking home, 2021, colored slip on stoneware, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2 x 1/2 in.
Erica Mao, Roof, 2021, glazed stoneware, 5 x 10 x 5 in.
Erica Mao, shack, found again, 2022, ceramic, 9 3/4 x 4 x 4 in.
Erica Mao, Open House, 2022, ceramic, 5 1/2 x 12 x 7 in.
Erica Mao, wander on the glowing hills, 2022, oil on panel, 16 x 20 in.
Joan Nelson, Untitled, 2017, acrylic, ink, spray paint, pencil, and marker on paper, 13 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. unframed, 21 1/4 x 20 3/4 framed.
Joan Nelson, Untitled, 2017, acrylic, ink, marker, pencil, and mascara on paper, 13 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. unframed, 21 1/4 x 20 3/4 framed.
Sky Hopinka, Cowboy Mouth 4 (Rek’úhuhíra), 2022, unique inkjet with hand scratched text and UV laminate, 41 1/4 x 41 1/4 in. framed.
Shaun O'Dell, Pathway, 2020, gouache and acrylic ink on paper mounted, on canvas over panel, 28 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.
Shaun O'Dell, Sighting Realignment Monument, 2021, gouache and acrylic ink on paper mounted on canvas over panel, 37 x 27 in.

Individual Artworks