“How to Measure an Ocean,” the new exhibition by artists James Enos and Jess Machacek, is a visualization of sea, land and climate processes that seem beyond grasp. The body of work includes large floor sculptures, wall-based reliefs, drawings and prints focusing on varied patterns and textures. This variation acts as a sensorial mirror for the variation in the atmosphere. Enos and Machacek work and travel together to experience and then recreate natural processes like waves, volcanic activity and physical energy, which they believe raise questions about time and memory and the nature of creating still abstractions of constantly changing things. Individually, Enos is an assistant professor of art at UGA whose solo work has focused largely on the rapid urbanization of the San Diego-Tijuana region. Machacek is a UGA Lamar Dodd School of Art graduate whose work is concerned with the ideas of familiarity and irony as they relate to nature. The exhibition is curated by Jon Swindler, a professor of art at the University of Georgia.
WHO: James Enos and Jess Machacek
WHEN: Saturday, Aug. 17, 6 p.m.
WHERE: ATHICA
HOW MUCH: FREE!
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