Spring 2023 Exhibitions:
Britt Ransom: Arise and Seek
The sculptural practice of Britt Ransom explores the transformation of data and material through digital fabrication processes such as 3D scanning, 3D printing, laser cutting, and computer-controlled milling. While earlier works have employed these methods to analyze human, animal, and environmental relationships, Arise and Seek utilizes them to examine the artist’s familial history and its links to the Civil Rights movement in the early twentieth century. In doing so, Ransom connects her earlier work on hierarchies of power between human and non-human agents to other systems of oppression that perpetuate structural racism and violence against people of color.
This project was made possible in part by a Further Fund grant from the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO of Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.
For full exhibition information, view Britt Ransom: Arise and Seek.
Programming
Britt Ransom will give an artist talk in Nichols Gallery, January 28, at 1:30 pm.
Maya Gurantz: The Plague Archives
Le charbon et la vaccination charbonneuse: d’après les travaux récents de M. Pasteur / par Ch. Chamberland (Anthrax and anthrax vaccination: according to the recent work of M. Pasteur, by Ch. Chamberland), 1883, courtesy of Wellcome Collection (Public Domain). 
Syphilitic ulceration of the nose, ca. 1862-1875, Thomas Godart, collection of St Bartholomew’s Hospital Archives & Museum, courtesy of Wellcome Collection (Public Domain). 
Bleach Man poster copyright 1988 San Francisco AIDS Foundation, A 1988 BleachMan advertisement created by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Courtesy of UCSF Archives and Special Collections. BleachMan poster, San Francisco AIDS Foundation, 1988, AIDS History Project Ephemera Collection, MSS 2000-31. 
Wen Shen, or the Five Commissioners of Pestilence, who govern Heaven’s Ministry of Epidemics. 
Cylinder seal and impression depicting Nergal, Mesopotamian God of death (especially death inflicted through war, plague, and pestilence), courtesy of Wellcome Collection (Public Domain). 
Aztec manuscript painting of bodies dead of smallpox, Codex Telleriano-Remensis, 16th century Mexico, Courtesy of Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies. 
Smallpox pustule gauge, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1870-1930, collection of Science Museum, London, image courtesy of Wellcome Collection. 
Image of the tongue during different stages of yellow fever, by Etienne Pariset, 1820. Courtesy of The Rubenstein Library’s History of Medicine Collections, Duke University.
Maya Guranz’s interdisciplinary research-based practice incorporates dance, video, performance, text, and installation, which she deploys to examine constructions of race, gender, and class in relation to shared myths, public rituals, and private desires. At Pitzer College Art Galleries, these ideas are manifested in The Plague Archives, a site-specific installation comprising two video projections and a dense collection of archival material on the social, cultural, and political histories of epidemics and outbreaks. Spanning the tenth through the twenty-first century, The Plague Archives, presents a multi-layered transhistorical and intercultural discourse on the shifting attitudes and definitions of disease.
For full exhibition information, view Maya Gurantz: The Plague Archives.
Programming
Maya Gurantz will give a performance in Lenzner Family Art Gallery, January 28, at 2:30 pm.
Reception
Sat., Jan. 28, 2023
1 – 3:30 p.m.
Exhibitions
Jan. 28 – Mar. 25, 2023
Visit
Pitzer College Art Galleries are currently closed for installation and will be open to visitors, beginning January 28, Tuesday – Saturday, 12:00 – 5:00 pm.
Campus Location
Nichols Gallery – inside Broad Center at the intersection of Platt Boulevard and Mills Avenue
Lenzner Family Art Gallery – on the north end of Atherton Hall on Pitzer Road
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