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Liz Bachhuber & Jill Sebastian: Eat My Words
The James Watrous Gallery presents a joint exhibition by artists Liz Bachhuber and Jill Sebastian, who are engaged in an active online communication that alternates with shared studio time. Their “Eat My Words” exhibition features individual investigations and actively demonstrates how they can merge in unexpected ways, inviting viewers to engage in conversation about sustainability and recycling.
Having first met in art school at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, their artistic investigations have evolved in parallel. While Sebastian collected and archived so-called weeds from a vacant lot in Milwaukee, Bachhuber was on the city streets of Weimar, Germany, recovering and preserving remnants of the East German material culture.
Sebastian grew snow peas on her rooftop and, after consuming the harvest, made paper from the leaves and stems. Bachhuber designed a composter and fed it with kitchen scraps and shredded notations, texts and drawings from her studio practice, using the compost as fertilizer for a rapidly expanding banana palm grove. For these artists, recycling and composting are not just metaphors for artmaking but a way of living and making art responsibly in two of the most powerful consumer societies on earth.
Join the artists and Wisconsin Academy staff on Sunday, August 17 from 2-4pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition with an artists’ reception at the James Watrous Gallery.
