UNDERGROUND AGAIN
A joint exhibition with Patrick DeGuira
Underground Again meditates on ways history underlines the present - be it social, political, ecological, or geological.
Through a shared engagement with source materials derived from the landscape, the exhibition emerges and overlaps from the remains of social-philosophical models, earth-based systems, perceptions of time, and abandoned spaces of invention.
Panther Motel
On the night of September 10, 2001, Room 12 was occupied by two of the September 11th hijackers.
2016
Archival pigment print
36”x 46"”
Atlantic Ocean, September 10
A view of the Atlantic Ocean from the Panther Motel in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
2016
Archival pigment print mounted on dibond
58”x 72”
Mother Tree
Believed to be one of the oldest surviving “mother trees” to have escaped the 1900’s blight, which nearly wiped out the entire American chestnut population. Recent efforts to reintroduce a hardy American chestnut are largely a result of research done around this tree.
2016
Archival pigment print
36”x 46”
Newmarket Creek
The only intact tidal creek unburied by development of Charleston’s edges since the 1600’s. Landfills became “buildable” land and flooding is a constant issue.
2016
Archival pigment print
36”x 46”
Slickaway Road
Considered one of the first communities formed by emancipated slaves, this stop on the Underground Railroad in Kentucky was possibly given this name because slaves could “slick away” up to Ohio in search of freedom.
2016
Archival pigment print
36”x 46”
Meritex
A 19th century coal mine converted into an underground warehouse.
2016
Archival pigment print
36”x 46”
Black Mountain College
Founded in 1933, Black Mountain College was a school dedicated to artistic and creative experimentation. Its faculty included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Ruth Asawa, Anni and Josef Albers, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Willem de Kooning, among others.
The campus is now home to the Rockmont Camp, a Christian summer camp for boys.
2016
Archival pigment print
36”x 46”