WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Oct. 14, the Clark Art Institute hosts a conversation with exhibiting artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, featured in "Humane Ecology: Eight Positions," and exhibition curator Robert Wiesenberger. 

 

They discuss Aparicio's sculptural practice and the complex interdependence of people and plants—specifically in Central America and in the Los Angeles neighborhoods where he grew up. 

 

This free talk takes place at 3:30 pm in the Lunder Center at Stone Hill.

 

Aparicio received a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 2016 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College in 2012. He has appeared in exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, the Denver Art Museum, and El Museo del Barrio, and is the subject of a forthcoming solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA LA).

 

According to a press release:

 

"Humane Ecology: Eight Positions" features artists who explore the inseparability of the natural and social. Each represents a distinct approach and place, or position, but all think in ecological terms—that is, about the complex relationships between living things and their environments. In doing so, they challenge ideas of "nature" as something separate from humans. They also center humans who have often been marginalized in discussions of the environment. Through sculpture, video, sound installation, and plantings, these artists illuminate patterns of cultivation and care, migration and adaptation, extraction and exploitation that span historical, geographical, and species lines. On view through October 29, 2023, the exhibition is presented in outdoor and indoor spaces at the Clark, including both the Clark's Conforti Pavilion and the Lunder Center at Stone Hill.