Animals Across Discipline, Time & Space
Essays and exhibition catalog, McMaster Museum of Art, January 2020
Kathryn Eddy, The Urban Wild Coyote Project
Colleen Plumb, Animals Are Outside Today
Derek Jenkins, Livestock
Mary Anne Barkhouse, Red Rover
Erica Gajewski, Mercury, Water, PCB, DDT
McMaster Museum of Art, 2 January 2020
Tracy McDonald (photo), featuring work by Mary Anne Barkhouse (roof) and Colleen Plumb (poster)
What are the responsibilities of art? Can it be true that art has no responsibilities except to itself? What about when art is made out of the bodies of murdered animals or trees? … What artist, without breaking their own heart, could consider never making art again?