Headwaters to Heartlands
Headwaters to Heartlands
Headwaters to Heartlands
Lauren Rosenthal McManus
November 4 - December 2, 2022
GOCA Downtown
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
New Jersey based artist Lauren Rosenthal McManus is VAPA’s Female Emerging Artist Residency Series resident for fall 2022. Her work focuses on the relationship between communities and their local watersheds and she draws upon map making, cartography, art history, and ecology to reveal, explore, and re-envision our culture’s complex relationship with fresh water. Her practice is centered on creating large, site- specific, temporary wall drawing murals of regional watersheds using pigments made from rocks and soil collected along their banks. For her show at GOCA Downtown, she will make a drawing of the Fountain Creek watershed, while also exhibiting prints from her artist book her piece Political / Hydrological: A Watershed Remapping of the Contiguous United States, a folio that re-envision the geo-political boundaries of each of our country’s lower 48 states fifty states by way of their primary watersheds.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lauren Rosenthal McManus’s work is held in several institutional collections, including the Nurture Nature Center, the Charlotte Museum of History, and the Bank of America Collection. She holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she was an urban livability fellow.
Instagram: @gocacolospgs
Image courtesy of the artist.
IMPORTANT DATES
Exhibition on View:
November 4 - December 2, 2022
Special Events:
NOV 3:
VISITING ARTISTS & CRITICS TALK WITH LAUREN ROSENTHAL MCMANUS AT 6 PM,
FOLLOWED BY RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST UNTIL 7 PM.
GOCA DOWNTOWN
First Friday Opening Event
November 4, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
GOCA Downtown
Gallery Talk @ 6:00 p.m.
First Friday Closing Event
December 2, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
GOCA Downtown
No registration needed
GOCA Downtown Gallery Hours
Friday & Saturday, 12 - 6 p.m. or by appointment
As always, galleries are free to visit.
