July 1, 2009
My darling friend Louisa Conrad’s art show was just reviewed in the Boston Globe!! Conrad does draw lines, but she’s an intriguing cartographer. In her spare show at anthony greaney, she uses a variety of media to chart and evoke the Mackenzie Delta, an area in the Canadian arctic that oil and gas companies have been exploring for decades. Conrad also offers a wall full of lovely, delicate drawings of native plants, other photos of the landscape, and a wall drawing in which she traces aerial views of different sections of a proposed pipeline, one over the next; they look like an unruly hank of dry hair, bound at two ends. She titles it after Immanuel Kant: “Out of the Crooked Timber of Humanity, Nothing Entirely Straight Can Be Built.’’ This show is up at anthony greaney in Boston. Her work is also currently in The End of Oil at Exit Art in New York through July 31st.

My darling friend Louisa Conrad’s art show was just reviewed in the Boston Globe!!

Conrad does draw lines, but she’s an intriguing cartographer. In her spare show at anthony greaney, she uses a variety of media to chart and evoke the Mackenzie Delta, an area in the Canadian arctic that oil and gas companies have been exploring for decades.

Conrad also offers a wall full of lovely, delicate drawings of native plants, other photos of the landscape, and a wall drawing in which she traces aerial views of different sections of a proposed pipeline, one over the next; they look like an unruly hank of dry hair, bound at two ends. She titles it after Immanuel Kant: “Out of the Crooked Timber of Humanity, Nothing Entirely Straight Can Be Built.’’

This show is up at anthony greaney in Boston. Her work is also currently in The End of Oil at Exit Art in New York through July 31st.