Curated by Sarah Irvin and Tracy Stonestreet

October 21-December 6, 2024

Panel Discussion: Friday, November 8, 4-5pm
Opening Reception: Friday, November 8, 5-7pm

This exhibition celebrates the mission and history of UVA’s ArtLab Residency at Mountain Lake Biological Station. Begun in 2013, ArtLab brings together artists with scientists to observe, explore, and investigate the natural world. Each artist in the exhibition is a past participant of the residency, and each artwork reflects in its own way the type of exploration and research that ArtLab fosters. 

The artworks curated here communicate the profoundly positive impact of interdisciplinary interaction. Tapping into the principles of observation, they focus on the natural world and our relation to it, and call attention to the artist’s central role as observer. This has the collective result of blurring the fictitious line between observer and the observed, and of highlighting the human ability to step out of and interpret the workings of our planet. 

CURATORS
Sarah Irvin, Artist and Curator and Tracy Stonestreet, Artist, Writer, Researcher, and Director of University of Mary Washington Galleries

ARTISTS
Nancy Blum | Sara Bouchard | Gregory Brellochs | Rob Carter | Zehra Khan | Meredith Leich | Chris Mahonski | Nathalie Miebach | Ash Eliza Williams

Supported by an Arts Enhancement Grant from UVA Arts Council: Enriching the Arts on Grounds & the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts.