Tigerbeetle, Wintercreeper
CURATED BY CORSON ANDROSKI
JANUARY 10TH - FEBRUARY 21ST, 2020
Overlooked by our country's large scale conservation projects, its native ecosystems almost entirely plowed or paved, the Midwest's land isn't easy to love. Tigerbeetle, Wintercreeper, a collaboration between Mad(eline) Cass and Corson Androski, brings together two practices devoted to complicated places close to home. Considering what remains in the seams of our patchwork flyover states, this exhibit grieves our region's particular losses while celebrating the unique ways of knowing and caring for the land which are only possible here.
Special thanks to the Omaha Public Library, its genealogy department, and Matha Grenzeback especially for their help finding, understanding, and reproducing the archival material on display.
This exhibition was presented with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
Installation Images
About the Artists
Corson Androski is a researcher, conservationist, software developer, and photographer/filmmaker from Hutchinson, Kansas. Their work uses the concept of care (as labor, affect, and ethic, given/received by humans and other-than-humans, individuals, and systems) to consider emergent communities of illness alongside informal conservation of the small, overlooked ecosystems of weeds and fungi that spring up in the seams of our patchwork flyover state. Corson was awarded one of Amplify’s Artist Support Grants in 2019 and is an Alternate Currents Working Group Member in 2020.
Mad(eline) Cass is a Nebraska native currently living and working in the Mojave desert. She earned a BFA in studio art with an emphasis in photography from the University of Nebraska in 2017. Her work examines the myriad relationships between art, science, nature, and humanity. Through photography, artist books, zines, poetry, drawing, collage, video, installation and sculpture, her work follows mycological metaphors of growth and decay.