March and April, 2025
Exhibition
Mother Nature In the Bardo
Previous exhibition: BlackBook Gallery at the High Line Nine, Chelsea, NYC.
An exhibition about the convergence between art, culture, nature, and spirituality – how artists address these themes in their practice: In collaboration with UNESCO GEM Report.
Installation view, ‘Mother Nature in the Bardo.’ Photo: GC Photography.
Installation view, ‘Mother Nature in the Bardo.’ Photo: GC Photography.
Serge Attukwei Clottey
Gold Falls, Installation View, Desert X AlUla, 2022. Photo: Lance Gerber.
Courtesy of the artist and Desert X AlUla.
Ai Weiwei
Oil Spills, 2006. Porcelain Glaze. 11 individual works. Dimensions variable, between 5 to 47 in. diameter each. Courtesy of the artist.
Donald Judd
Untitled (Menziken 88-16), 1988. Clear anodized aluminum with transparent green over black acrylic sheets and red acrylic sheets. Overall: 236.22 x 39.37 x 19.69 in. Each: 19.69 x 39.37 x 19.69 in. Photo courtesy of Thaddeus Ropac.
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Alexander Calder
Black Leafed Flowers, 1972. Gauche and ink on paper. 29 1/2 x 43 in. Courtesy of Omer Tiroche Gallery.
Nicholas Galanin
Escape from Intertia, 2020. Wolf pelt, felt. Courtesy of the artist and Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
Ebony G. Patterson
…BENT… AND RIPPLED IN THE SWALLOW….SUBMITTING TO ….AN ENDING, 2023. Digital print on archival watercolor paper and construction paper with hand-cut and torn elements, feather butterflies, plastic flies, and plastic roaches on custom wallpaper, 9 1/4 x 113 x 7 in. (framed). Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery.
Petra Cortright
“naturist information” NERO BURNING ROM netscape proxy parent cache, Executed in 2021, Digital painting on anodized aluminum. 59 4/5 x 83 9/10 in. Courtesy of the artist.
BlackBook art gallery, at the 10,000 sq. ft., High Line Nine gallery on 27th St., in Chelsea, NYC, launched an art exhibition exploring how artists address nature and spirituality in their practice. Beginning with the Industrial Revolution to present, the exhibition featured 70 artworks from 100 international artists, galleries, institutions, estates, and foundations, in collaboration with UNESCO GEM Report. The exhibition explored how artists address the environment and spiritual themes given the cultural influences or zeitgeists of their time.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Claude Monet, Paul Signac, Alfred Sisley, Andy Warhol, Edward Hopper, Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet, Salvador Dalí, Hudson River School, Marsden Hartley, Alexander Calder, Robert Rauschenberg, Donald Judd, Anselm Kiefer, Cecily Brown, Yayoi Kusama, Ed Ruscha, Ai Weiwei, Frank Gehry, Marc Chagall, Lucian Freud, Lucio Fontana, John Chamberlain, Robert Longo, Alex Katz, Elaine Sturtevant, Jean Arp, James Rosenquist, Damien Hirst, Doug Aitken, Olafur Eliasson, Ebony G. Patterson, Allison Janae Hamilton, Petra Cortright, Kathleen Jacobs, Serge Attukwei Clottey, Nicholas Galanin, Hugo McCloud, Rachel Kneebone, Dustin Yellin, Jay Heikes, Agnes Pelton, Walton Ford, Wangechi Mutu, Fred Tomaselli, Takis, April Gornik, Jammie Holmes, Fawn Rogers, Dinos Chapman.
The exhibition is part of our art + impact series examining popular cultural issues and the conversations around them, through art. Themes like environmental and climate awareness, impermanence vs permanence, recycling and appropriation, raw materials vs synthetic, land, sea, sky, and air, spirituality and cosmology arise in the exhibition. Mother Nature in the Bardo references the Buddhist concept of the ‘Bardo’ – the liminal space between death and rebirth.