Force of Nature: Site Installations by Ten Japanese Artists

Mark Sloan and Brad Thomas

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and Davidson College, VanEvery/ Smith Galleries: 2007

ISBN:978-1-890573-07-2

"...Human interventions with the natural world are the focus of the exhibition, "Force of Nature," which features the work of 10 Japanese artists at Clemson Architecture Center, the College of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the College of Charleston's Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Davidson's Van Every/Smith Galleries, Winthrop University Galleries, and two arts centers.

"Force of Nature" offers a look at Japanese contemporary art apart from the widely disseminated images of anime cartoons and manga comics. The artists incorporate human and natural elements, like hair and salt, and processes, like breathing and cloud formation, to represent the relationship between people and the environment.

"They take these grandiose ideas," says Brad Thomas, director of the Davidson galleries, "and compress them into a very elegant and distilled and beautiful art exhibition."

-Sara Lipka, "The Arts and Academe," The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 27, 2006,  Volume 53, Issue 10, Page A12

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