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Audubon in the Anthropocene: Works by Matthew Day Jackson

Audubon in the Anthropocene: Works by Matthew Day Jackson

Kate Meyer, curator

Gallery 404, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

This exhibition features a portfolio of prints by contemporary artist Matthew Day Jackson, who reimagines images of birds discovered by John James Audubon amidst apocalyptic settings.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson (born 1974); Collaborative Art Editions, There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground

Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson (born 1974); Collaborative Art Editions, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound

Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson (born 1974); Collaborative Art Editions, And frogs in the pools, singing at night

Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson (born 1974); Collaborative Art Editions, And wild plum trees in tremulous white

Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson (born 1974); Collaborative Art Editions, Robins will wear their feathery fire

Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson (born 1974); Collaborative Art Editions, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire

Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson (born 1974); Collaborative Art Editions, And not one will know of the war, not one

Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson (born 1974); Collaborative Art Editions, Will care at last when it is done

Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson (born 1974); Collaborative Art Editions, Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree

Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson (born 1974); Collaborative Art Editions, And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn

Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson (born 1974); Collaborative Art Editions, If mankind perished utterly

Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson (born 1974); Collaborative Art Editions, colophon

Christopher T. Creyts; Matthew Day Jackson (born 1974); Collaborative Art Editions, Would scarcely know that we were gone

John T. Bowen; John James Audubon (1785–1851), Cardinal Grosbeak, Fringilla cardinalis [Cardinalis cardinalis]

John T. Bowen; John James Audubon (1785–1851), Carolina Parrot, Psittacus carolinensis [Conuropsis carolinensis]

John T. Bowen; John James Audubon (1785–1851), Wild Turkey, Meleagris gallopavo

unknown maker, Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) skin

unknown maker, Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) skin

unknown maker, Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) skin

unknown maker, Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus)

Roe Lockwood & Son; Julius Bien; John James Audubon (1785–1851), Summer or Wood Duck, Anas sponsa [Aix sponsa]

John T. Bowen; John James Audubon (1785–1851), American Flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber

Events

September 17, 2020

Talk

Info Session for Backyard Bash: Conference of the Birds

4:30–5:30PM

To join, register for the Zoom link at https://kansas.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvcuCupzkjHNNiCenBOcin7UGhiClbMgnV

May 21, 2021

Screening

There Will Come Soft Rains

1:30–1:45PM

Join us on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/spencerart/posts/4279313662120054

Resources

Documents

Exhibition Labels (Formatted)