Installation view of solo exhibition Reverse Subterrestrial at The Chimney NYC, Brooklyn (2017)
       
     
Portfolio / sculpture
October 8 - November 17, 2019 Allegheny College Art Galleries, Pennsylvania, USA Curated by Paula Burleigh Featuring: Andrew Erdows, Yasue Maetake, & Barry Underwood S peculative Geographies incites shifts in perspective: from the human body to the environment, from the present to a hypothetical future or alternate reality. In an era defined by both new technologies and climate change, we increasingly understand ourselves as participants in a vast network of nonhuman relations. Artists Andrew Erdos, Yasue Maetake, and Barry Underwood visualize those networks. Mountainous glass sculptures by Erdos evoke topographies from another time or from some other planet. Conjuring hybrid plant-animals or fantastical structures, Maetake’s constructions in fiber, bone, metal, and resins could populate extraterrestrial terrain. Barry Underwood transforms recognizable landscapes through light and sculptural installations, making long-exposure photographs that appear otherworldly and animated by their own mysterious life-force. From the vantage point of an increasingly precarious present, Speculative Geographies envisions possible realities in which humans may or may not play a role.
       
     
Portfolio / Exhibition Speculative Geography (2019)
Ningen Kokuho (2008) Installation view at 10th SONSBEEK , Arnhem, The Netherlands H132" x W228" x L144", steel, stainless steel, aluminum, plexi glass, animal bones, resin mounted fish skin, fabric
       
     
Portfolio / sculpture (prior to 2010)
       
     
Portfolio / Three-Legged Idol series (selected)
Printed Oxidation and Indigo Blue on Fiber Relief II (2019) Width 135” x Depth 5” x Length 14”, steel wire, steel rust and indigofera on boiled and beaten mulberry bark (kozo) and cotton
       
     
Portfolio / fiber relief series
Homo-apparatus (2015) 08:11 min. color two-channel In this 2-channels video, the tattoo symbolizes human's attempt at mastering nature that exists in a state beyond being human body. The actress channels and enlarges a drawing of fish and water, sculpts her own likeness, Janus-head like onto an inanimate body. The artist's subject here is a representation of continuous living and remolding the given materiality of this world.
       
     
Portfolio / video