Date: Sunday, October 20
Address: 1007 Russell Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63104
Media: Installation, Painting, Sculpture
Studio Features: ADA Accessible, Restroom, Work For SaleMargaret Keller, Riverbend, 2018. Aluminum. Courtesy the artist. Margaret Keller, Botanica absentia, 2019. Aluminum, wood, dichroic plexiglass, holographic vinyl, stainless steel. Courtesy the artist. Margaret Keller, Botanica absentia, 2019. Stainless steel. Courtesy the artist. Margaret Keller, The Space Between, 2019, mixed media. Courtesy the artist. Margaret Keller, USofA Drone Carpet, 2018. 3D printed nylon. Courtesy the artist. My large-scale installations are concerned with technology's impact on the survival of our species, along with all other interdependent species, as we stumble into the future. Issues I address include speculative possibilities for planetary survival, surveillance, gender, the experience of nature in this digital age, and natural disasters/climate change. To do this, I use diverse media such as sculpture, mixed-media, video, painting, 3D-prints, digital imagery, installation, casting, and drawing. My series share an investigation into the relationships between nature, contemporary culture, and technology, along with their effects on our lives. These connections provide the conceptual resource for multiple, simultaneous series that, though stylistically different, are aligned through their internal thought processes. All of these series come from my sense that at this precise moment, we are at the tipping point of a world gone wrong.