Solo exhibitions of work by Tara Geer and William Eric Brown will open at the Arts Center at Duck Creek on Saturday and continue through Aug. 20.
Ms. Geer will take over the John Little Barn with "Sown in the Half Light," a drawing installation. Drawing has been her medium for three decades, often taking form as large monochromatic works with emotional power.
After a winter visit to Duck Creek, she began to make work specifically for the barn. During the week of the Canadian wildfires, she drove from her studio in Harlem with carloads of drawings and paper. She measured, cut, and sketched each work again, according to a release, to harmonize with the barn's wood walls.
"Her work matched the rawness of the space: the tangled lines, and lumpy things seem to grow, not entirely rationally, in the building's half light."
Ms. Geer will lead a discussion with the audience about visual thinking on Aug. 20 at 3 p.m.
Duck Creek's Little Gallery will feature "ATKA," a series of photo-based works by Mr. Brown. The series is based on a set of 35mm slides taken by his father in Antarctica during the 1960s on a Navy icebreaker, the U.S.S. Atka.
Enlarging, stitching together, and reconstituting the images with spray paint and diagrammatic charcoal marks, he has created a new narrative that emphasizes the isolation of the region and its relevance to global warming.
He also made an artist's book, included in the show, that focuses on shots of massive waterways craved out by the ship, often surrounded by huge ice shelves. The subject of environmental impact revealed itself as he repurposed the images.
A talk between Mr. Brown and Steve Miller, an artist whose work has long explored the influence of science and technology, will take place on Sunday afternoon at 3.
Receptions will be held on Saturday afternoon from 3 to 5 for Mr. Brown and from 5 to 7 for Ms. Geer.
