Everhart Museum (Scranton)
Natural Selections by Julie Dermansky
July 14 - Sept 24
Natural Selections features an installation of specimen photographs created by Julie Dermansky and objects from the museum's natural history collection. By examining the history of early 20th-century museum displays, the exhibit explores ideas about representation of "reality," notions of collecting (roles of museums and private individuals), colonization of new worlds (the natural world) and knowledge derived from and perpetuated by classification systems. According to Dermansky, "Natural history museums have always been a source of inspiration to me.... My photos celebrate the tradition of the naturalists as well as documenting the decay of both the tradition of presenting natural history the way the naturalist intended, and of the specimens themselves. I illuminate the mysterious beauty and timelessness of the specimens. I hope to capture the mysterious quality of the natural history collections, especially those still intact in their 19th-century format, before all the museums are engulfed in interactive displays and multimedia ecosystem halls."
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Modern People: A Tribute to Arnold Newman
Sept 23 - Mar 4, 2007
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