LECTURE | Natasha Myers

Please join us for a lecture by Natasha Myers, a Toronto-based anthropologist of art, science, and ecology. The lecture will be followed by the opening reception of Rust Never Sleeps.

The title of Neil Young’s 1979 album ‘Rust Never Sleeps’ speaks to the concept behind this exhibition of work by five artists who employ naturally occurring growth—salt, mould, rust, flowers and lichen spores—as their materials. The resulting works address commodity, use value, causality, chance and instability.

Rust is an organic or chemical process of decay. It is also a blight that affects plants. In any form, rust is rarely—if ever—a positive thing. We don’t want rust—it damages and destroys. Yet, despite our best efforts, once rust takes hold and starts to grow there is very little chance of containing it. Conversely, art is a valuable commodity and its value increases over time.

Rust Never Sleeps features: Arnaud Desjardin, Jason de Haan, Raphael Hefti, Ruben Ochoa and Holly Schmidt.

June 1 to July 17, 2016
Lecture by Natasha Myers | Tuesday, May 31 |  6:30pm in Room 245
Opening Reception | Tuesday, May 31 | 7:30pm in the Charles H. Scott Gallery