Groundwork

Join us for the opening reception of Groundwork, a group exhibition taking terra firma as both subject and medium. The artists, who span generations and territories across the United States, include: Sydney Acosta, Teresa Baker, Moira Bateman, Liz Ensz, Hannah Lee Hall, Alexa, Horochowski, Kahlil Robert Irving, Seitu Jones, Stephanie Lindquist, Gudrun Lock, Saranoa Mark, Ana Mendieta, Alva Mooses, Ryan Gerald Nelson, Nikki Praus, Ian Tweedy and Mathew Zefeldt.

Through the excavation of land in artwork that takes the ground as both subject and material, this exhibition aims to encourage discussion about the earth’s preservation, its local meaning, the contesting and often violent claims made to it, and above all the sustenance, both spiritual and physical, that we derive from it.

Groundwork is part of the Wakpa Triennial. Organized by Public Art Saint Paul, the inaugural edition responds to the theme “Network of Mutuality”, a phrase from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, which speaks to social justice, mutual care, interdependence, and inextricable links among humans.