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Dawn Cerny: We’re all going to die (except for you).
NORTH GALLERIES
January 26 – April 27, 2008
EXHIBITION BROCHURE: We’re
all going to die (except for you). (948 KB)
Dawn Cerny. Going to Die Shirt. 2007. Ink on paper. 11 x 10 in. Courtesy of the artist.
Dawn Cerny’s elaborate narrative installations of small drawings and works on paper contemplate present day social and political issues by focusing on parallel moments in history. Studying the Henry’s collection, Cerny has selected Victorian-era mourning garments and 19th-century landscape paintings to be installed alongside her own work. The ensemble provides an extended meditation on American attitudes toward death, trauma, and war past and present. The installation will include mourning jewelry, ephemera, and journals borrowed from a private collection and seven taxidermy owls from the UW’s Burke Museum.
Cerny will be working in the open studio format during the run of the exhibition. One gallery will be outfitted as a combination of waiting room, library, and studio space.
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Curated by Associate Curator Sara Krajewski with generous support from ArtsFund and the Patrons of the Henry Art Gallery. Special thanks to Judy Sourakli, Henry Curator of Collections; Rob Faucett, collections manager of Ornithology at the Burke Museum; Jackie Kosak, curator of the Safeco Art Collection; and Sandra Kroupa, Book Arts and Rare Book Curator, UW Libraries Special Collections; and Stephen Hazel and Kathleen Rabel of +=studio blu=+. In kind support provided by Anne Bradfield of Floressence Design. |
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