Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020
OCTOBER 16, 2020 — JUNE 27, 2021
Renwick Gallery (Pennsylvania Avenue at 17th Street NW, Washington, DC)
Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 features artists Lauren Fensterstock, Timothy Horn, Debora Moore, and Rowland Ricketts. Nature provides a way for these invited artists to ask what it means to be human in a world increasingly chaotic and divorced from our physical landscape. Representing craft media from fiber to mosaic to glass and metals, these artists approach the long history of art’s engagement with the natural world through unconventional and highly personal perspectives.
Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020 is the ninth installment of the Renwick Invitational. Established in 2000, this biennial showcase highlights midcareer and emerging makers who are deserving of wider national recognition.
Ai no Keshiki
Rowland Ricketts: Artistic direction
Norbert Herber: Sound and music system design
SAAM “Meet the Artists” introduction to Ai no Keshiki.
Special thanks to Hiroo Izawa, Fumiaki Sato, Tomoya Takahashi, and Mauve Audiovisual of Tokushima, Japan; Nora Atkinson, Stefan Gibson, Jennifer Lee, Scott Rosenfeld, Harvey Sandler, Michael Sperow, and Rebecca Sullestra of the Renwick Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Robbie Hayes, and Emily Zilber.
Installation shots of Forces of Nature: Renwick Invitational 2020, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2020, courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, photo by Ashley Reese.