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Sequesterings
Twyla Exner, Things 13 & 14, 2019
August 6 – October 24, 2026
Bringing together ten contemporary artists who utilize discarded materials to explore the intersections of art, environmental activism, and human impact on nature, Sequesterings challenges viewers to confront our world鈥檚 ecological crisis through the lens of radical transformation. With diverse works ranging from delicately stitched collages and colorful hand-woven textiles to large-scale sculptures, the artists in Sequesterings act as environmental stewards and aesthetic scavengers. They reclaim what society thoughtlessly discards, transforming obsolescence into opportunity.
The exhibition features work by Twyla Exner, Calder Kamin, Natalya Khorover, Blue McRight, Anna Mein, Kelsey Merreck Wagner, Pamela “Posey” Moulton, Portia Munson, Aurora Robson, and Ian Trask, whose individual art practices unite to present a global issue on an intimate scale, creating a vision of optimism within a harsh reality.
Sequesterings聽was curated by Cecily Cullen and Aurora Robson.
Artists
Aurora Robson
Aurora Robson works primarily with post-consumer and post-industrial plastics, sculpting toxic waste into playful yet slightly menacing forms. Her practice explores the material irony of plastic, simultaneously indestructible and destructive, transforming it into objects of beauty while keeping its troubling origins ever-present. The work serves as both a personal meditation on childhood fears and a broader engagement with the global crisis of plastic pollution while conveying the delicate connection between human culture and the natural world.
Pamela "Posey" Moulton
Pamela “Posey” Moulton聽is an artist and environmental activist who works primarily with salvaged fishing gear, recovering over 20-tons of abandoned gear to-date, transforming it into fantastical sculptures that blur the line between plant, animal, and imaginary creature. Her work tells the stories of nature’s resilience while raising awareness of issues such as rising sea levels and the devastating effects of derelict fishing equipment on marine ecosystems and industries.
Blue McRight
Blue McRight鈥檚听Plastinauts聽are speculative marine-like creatures from the future whose organic bodies have been completely replaced by plastic as a means to survive in the ocean鈥檚 polluted waters. Utilizing marine salvage materials such as straws, ropes, and nets, McRight鈥檚 artwork alludes to deep-sea migrations while elevating plastic trash to fine art material.
Twyla Exner
Twyla Exner鈥檚 series titled聽Things, features organic forms hand-woven from discarded landline telephone cables, copper wire coated in plastic. Resembling coral reefs fungi, and other organisms, these sculptures blur the boundaries between technology and organic growth, challenging the disposable logic of consumer electronics, and reimagining what we consider waste.
Anne Mein
The belief that the medium of a work is inherent to its message lies at the core of聽Anne Mein鈥檚 series titled聽Wood and Waste. Joining together litter from both the natural and human worlds, Mein creates modular sculptures that embody the complex relationship between the two entities.
Calder Kamin
Plastics such as marker caps, Easter eggshells, sleds, and shopping bags are deconstructed, reshaped, and fashioned into fantastical menageries by聽Calder Kamin. By transforming community-donated plastic and trash into beautifully textured sculptures of flora and fauna, Kamin shifts society’s perception of trash into enduring optimism.
Natalya Khorover聽
Natalya Khorover聽stitches together single-use plastics, food wrappers, and vintage linens into delicately rendered collages of line and form. Her community-rooted practice turns neighborhood discards into mended relics, highlighting the astonishing possibilities of environmental action.
Kelsey Merreck Wagner
Kelsey Merreck Wagner聽a self-described “eco-artivist,” orchestrates large-scale weavings made entirely from recycled materials such as plastic bags, old clothes, electronic cables, bubble wrap, and party decorations. She works collaboratively with her community, weaving their lives into the works, giving longer life to the short-term use materials that would otherwise spend eternity as trash. This community-engaged practice raises crucial awareness around environmental pollution and its effects on us and the natural world.
Ian Trask
Ian Trask聽is a sculptor and multimedia artist who repurposes waste materials into art installations imbuing items of trash with new meaning and purpose. His work critiques society’s unsustainable relationship with material consumption and its environmental impact. Over time, his personal exploration of trash as an artistic medium has grown into a community-driven collaborative practice centered on creative reuse and connection.
Portia Munson鈥檚
Portia Munson鈥檚 work critically examines the intersections of gender, environmentalism, and capitalism. Her video project titled聽Contents of a Whale鈥檚 Belly is a two-channel, 1-hour long video comprised of hundreds of scans of the either blue or pink objects found in the bellies of deceased marine animals. The objects are sorted into the two stereotypical colors of gender representation, speaking to how men and women are separately portrayed in our culture through the colors and objects they鈥檙e sold.
