Doomsday Clock, 2019
Linocut on heavy white wove paper
18 x 13 1/8 in (45.7 x 33.3 cm)
Edition of 22 plus 10 AP
"A Shrinking World" was originally organized for the 2019 SGC International Conference
Organizer’s Statement: Contemplating the triage of human affairs, it is difficult to envision any list where addressing climate change does not rank among the most critical imperatives. Ecological disaster, mass extinction, and global warming; all household phrases. Notions of “nature” easily become entangled in nostalgia and romanticism. A Shrinking World encourages both the artist and audience to consider the natural world as something more than the spaces and images we have designated as nature. The Anthropocene is not some far off idea that denies individuals agency. Nature, and its potential collapse, is at your doorstep.
Work in the portfolio includes prints from previous UT visiting artists including Michael Barnes, Sean Caulfield, Aaron Coleman, Yugi Hiratsuku, Kathryn Polk and Sue Coe, who is also represented by a set of lithographs she completed during two previous trips to the School of Art’s print shop.
A Shrinking World is organized by Andrew Mullally, assistant printmaking facility technician at Columbia College Chicago, and Jessica Robles, lecturer of printmaking at California State University, Fresno.