‘Ghost Nature’ opening reception

UIC’s Gallery 400 hosts an opening reception for “Ghost Nature,” a group exhibition curated by Caroline Picard, featuring works in various media that address the limits of human perspectives on nature and ecology.

The exhibition is on view through March 1: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, noon-6 p.m.

“‘Ghost Nature’ exposes the limits of human perspective in the emergent landscape that remains: a slippery network of sometimes monstrous creatures, plants, and technological advancements,” Picard writes. “Working in sculpture, photography, drawing, and video, artists in ‘Ghost Nature’ investigate the borders and bounds between human and nonhuman experience.”

Jeremy Bolen juxtaposes subterranean traces of radioactivity with images of scenery above ground, with a material layer of dirt scattered on the surface of his prints. Heidi Norton embeds living plants in her work, creating abstract frames with glass and wax. Irina Botea frames landscape by filming a tour guide on his quixotic search for the perfect “picturesque” view. Carrie Gundersdorf translates planetary bodies into the motifs of abstract, colorist painting. Assaf Evron interprets in wood an algorithmic color model, the form determined by the limits of the computer from which it originated.

Other exhibiting artists are Sebastian Alvarez, Art Orienté objet (Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin), Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Robert Burnier, Marcus Coates, Institute of Critical Zoologists, Jenny Kendler, Devin King, Stephen Lapthisophon, Milan Metthey, Rebecca Mir, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Tessa Siddle and Xaviera Simmons.