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Soundings: Making Culture at Sea

Celka Straughn, curator
CuratedByVoc, curator

Galleries 315 and 316, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Featuring works of art and material culture made in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, and Asia, this exhibition shows how in the past and present the world’s oceans are a space for cross-cultural reflections on the relationship between humans and the earth.

Works of art

unrecorded Hausa-Fulani artist, cloth with Queen Elizabeth II

Calixte Henry (1933–2010, active 1955–2010), three fishing boats and two fishermen on open water

Mark Dion (born 1961), Marine Algae

unknown maker, A new chart of the world: on Wright's or Mercator's projection, in which are exhibited all the parts hitherto explored or discovered with the tracks of the British circumnavigators Byron, Wallis, ...

Andrea Chung, Untitled

James Craig Nicoll (1846–1918), Sugar Refineries, East River, NY

Benjamin Martin (1704–1782), octant

Mark Dion (born 1961), Marine Algae

Mark Dion (born 1961), Marine Algae

Enrique Chagoya (born 1953), El Regreso del Canibal Macrobiotico (The Return of the Macrobiotic Cannibal)

tureen and cover

Winslow Homer (1836–1910), West India Divers

Mark Dion (born 1961), colophon

saucer with landscape

Terry Evans (born 1944), Icebergs, Disko Bay

Mark Dion (born 1961), Marine Algae

Utagawa Yoshitora (active 1830–1870), Yokohama Hatoba Keshiki (View of Yokohama Harbor)

William Roach: Nantucket Whaler

Norman Akers (born 1958), Landing

Lewis Lindsay Dyche (1857–1915), icebergs off the coast of Greenland

Terry Evans (born 1944), Icefjord that leads to the mouth of the Jakobshavn Glacier

William Hogarth (1697–1764), Mad House

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (circa 1525–1569); Hieronymus Cock (circa 1510–1570); Frans Huys (1522–1562), Three Men of War in a Tempest

Mark Dion (born 1961), Marine Algae

Cara Romero (born 1977), Eufaula Girls

Terry Evans (born 1944), Chalkboards from a CReSIS classroom and office showing work in progress, including the interpretation of radar data that contributes to an understanding of the glacier

Pierre-Jacques Volaire (1729–1802), Seacoast with Ships

Lewis Lindsay Dyche (1857–1915), Inuit man in a kayak

Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Cloud Shadows

Mark Dion (born 1961), Marine Algae

Isaac Julien (born 1960); Bick Productions; New Museum of Contemporary Art, Encore (Paradise Omeros: Redux)

Bernard Séjourné (1947–1994), Erzuline

Lewis Lindsay Dyche (1857–1915), icebergs and coastline in Greenland

Mark Dion (born 1961), Marine Algae

unrecorded Kalaallit (Greenland Inuit) artist, miniature kayak with figure and harpoon

Willie Cole (born 1955); Highpoint Center for Printmaking (founded 2001), Calpurnia

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983); Buckminster Fuller Institute; Shoji Sadao, Dymaxion airocean world: the Raleigh edition of Fuller projection

Willie Cole (born 1955); Highpoint Center for Printmaking (founded 2001), Lula Bell

Willie Cole (born 1955); Highpoint Center for Printmaking (founded 2001), Bertha Mae

Kenojuak Ashevak (1927–2013), Rabbit Eating Seaweed II