Mixed-media artist Diane Tuft and painter April Gornik have a conversation moderated by Andy Battaglia, Executive Editor of ARTnews and Art in America, to discuss climate change and the environment in connection with their artistic practices.
The event coincides with the recent release of Tuft’s latest monograph, Entropy, which focuses on water and its radical transformation under the unrelenting pressures of climate change.
A book signing with Diane Tuft will follow the discussion. The book can be purchased after the program for $80 plus tax.
ABOUT ENTROPY
A photographic exploration detailing the poetry and fragility of nature amidst the tragedy of climate change.
Since 1998, mixed-media artist Diane Tuft has traveled the world recording the environmental factors shaping Earth’s landscape. Entropy is Tuft’s fourth monograph capturing the sublime and awe-inspiring beauty of nature as it is radically transformed under the unrelenting pressures of climate change.
The exquisite collection of photographs provides a captivating glimpse into the rapidly changing landscapes of our world. Tuft focuses specifically on water as its subject, contrasting global sea-level rise with water depletion in Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Compelling essays by prominent figures in art and science contributed by Bonnie K. Baxter, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Director of Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster University, and twentieth-century art historian Stacey Epstein, Ph.D. add depth and insight to Tuft’s work and its significance in the context of climate change.
Weaving passages of haiku with her beguiling photographs, Tuft’s newest monograph is packaged in a luxe-cloth-wrapped case screenprinted with her artwork Journey’s End featuring the Great Salt Lake. An extraordinary book, Entropy is a dramatic call to arms inspiring collective action for the critical preservation of nature.