Mia Feuer in her petroleum skating rink at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Photo: Darrow Montgomery/Washington City Paper
Over at Washington City Paper, Kriston Capps has a terrific profile of the artist Mia Feuer and the making of her new show, Mia Feuer: An Unkindness, which opens tomorrow at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. Feuer makes art inspired by the ruined landscapes of oil production she has visited around Alberta’s tar sands and mining sites in the Arctic. Among the installations is a skating rink built with petroleum products, on which one visitor at a time can skate. “I always in the back of my mind assumed that somebody somewhere was cleaning this up. I just always thought someone had a plan,” Feuer says.
Mia Feuer: An Unkindness runs through February 23, 2014, at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Several public programs are scheduled. More information at the Corcoran’s website.
Dog Sled, 2013
Arctic Sea trash and tar paper found in an abandoned coal mine in Longyearbyen, Norway
7 x 2 5/6 x 2 1/2 feet. Photo: Kate Warren/GoKateShoot
Arctic landscape, Longyearbyen. Photo: Mia Feuer, courtesy of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Boreal, 2013.
Timber, Styrofoam, steel, feathers, tar, black enamel, aircraft cable, and blue light
Dimensions variable, approximately 16 x 24 x 20 feet. Photo: Kate Warren/GoKateShoot
one role of government can be to require clean-up by the profit-makers….if we choose to pay for government.
Buying massive amounts of petroleum products, making sure every piece is wrapped safely in petroleum products for shipping in gas burning vehicles, making quite a decent wage showing these petroleum products that are made in response to being appauled by the oil industry’s destruction and waste. Nice. Thats art.
Hey “Art Critic”: I guess you’ve never heard of allegory or symbolism in art… Also, I can assure you that the artist did not make “a decent wage,” as you say.
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