The opening reception for Fire and Ice: Our Changing Landscape, a new group exhibition at the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, takes place on Sunday, April 10, from 3 to 5 p.m. Featured artists in the exhibit were challenged to depict “the opposing forces of fire and ice across a range of media,” according to the museum.
The show was curated by the museum’s executive director, Stacey Otte-Demangate, and is scheduled to remain on display through Monday, Sept. 26. Artworks in the exhibit hail from artists local to the Central Coast as well as guest artists based in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, New York, and Florida.
Three of the show’s featured artists, Anna McKee, Xavier Cortada, and David Rosenthal, were participants in the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Each of their artworks in the exhibit was inspired by their experiences during their time working in the Antarctic.
“My art about glaciers and ice science is in part an attempt to cope with the grief of environmental degradation,” McKee said in press materials. “I have traveled to remote field camps with glaciologists to perceive these places through their eyes and my own observations.”
Other featured artists in the show include David Paul Bayles, Zaria Foreman, Amiko Matsuo, Ethan Turpin, Lorena Williams, and Suze Woolf. Artworks created by The Environment Makers, a Santa Barbara-based group, are also on display in the exhibit.
To find out more about Fire and Ice: Our Changing Landscape, call (805) 688-1082 or visit wildlingmuseum.org. The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature is located at 1511 Mission Drive, unit B, Solvang.
