Visit ยEarthworksย for a look at three artists that use, you got it, the Earth to make their art. On view will be works by Mario Reis, Perla Krauze and Madeleine Dietz, who each use the natural world in their art. German artist Reis submerges a blank canvas in a riverbed and walks away. Days, sometimes weeks, later, he digs the canvas out and reveals what the river ยpainted.ย He has gone all over the world ย including Mexico (rich shades of brown) and the U.S. (some of his most colorful) ย making his river paintings. Mexican artist Krauze casts stones and then makes resin replicas of them, often in pale, almost translucent colors for her installation pieces (Kraus suspends the stones at various heights, making them seemingly float through space). And German artist Dietz uses mud bricks, often stacked against raw steel, as her most frequent medium.
Tuesdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Starts: July 7. Continues through Aug. 25
This article appears in Jul 5-11, 2007.