Work by Visual Arts alumna Clare Koury '20 is currently available for viewing in a new exhibition at Miriam Gallery, There was earth in them, and they dug. The exhibition will be open until August 8, 2021.
According to the gallery, "Science fiction and fantasy are replete with depictions of a sentient earth, with landscapes that share a single biological cycle with the entities that inhabit them...Likewise, the artists in There was earth in them, and they dug consider fictions and realities by which humans become seamlessly part of the environment around them, as water passing into the sea."
Koury's contribution to the exhibition, “Hopper,” 2019, explores the relationship between humans and their environment by playing with ideas of consumerism and waste. The piece contains Koury's trash, collected over a one-month period. According to Koury, "The only real difference between putting something in a time capsule and putting it in a landfill is the hope that someone will come back for what you've left behind."
Koury's work will also appear in three other exhibitions this summer. She is set to appear in ScoreSleeper at False Flag in NYC—alongside alumnae Rachel Labine '19 and Emma Schwartz '19—which opened on June 20, 2021. Her work will also be available for viewing in an "immersive shopping experience" titled Lucky Jewel at Lubov Gallery in NYC, beginning June 25, 2021, and in Desire of the Moth at Disneyland Paris in Melbourne Australia.
Clare Koury is an artist from Kentucky living in New York city. She received her BA from the University of Chicago and her MFA from Columbia University. She has exhibited works at M23 Projects and the Jewish Museum in New York City, The Fireplace Project in East Hampton, Randy Alexander Gallery and Produce Model Gallery in Chicago.
