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HAPPY EARTH DAY 🌎🌍🌏 Here on view: Justin Brice Guariglia “Hurricane Human”, 2019 UV acrylic inkjet print, one (1) high density polystyrene panel, epoxy, hand carved text 162,5 x 122 x 4 cm | 64 x 48 x 1 3/4 in unique Polystyrene x Text is a series of photographic artworks on polystyrene with meticulously hand-carved text. Taken by the artist during his trans-polar flights to Asia, these images show the fissuring of arctic sea ice, digitally manipulated to exude unnaturally vivid colors that suggest the palette of a postnatural landscape. A mirroring effect is a further distortion of the image, which contorts the patterning of the ice into an unnatural, geometric symmetry. Aphoristic texts collected from the artist’s research and conversations with philosopher Timothy Morton overlay these images with ecological descriptions that uncannily evoke a postnatural world. Guariglia has collaborated with Morton before to create aphoristic language that calls attention to issues of ecology with both gravity and humor. Here, several of Morton’s aphorisms speak alongside Guariglia’s found language, examples of which include: POST NATURAL; TROPHIC CASCADE; BIOSPHERE BBQ; and HURRICANE HUMAN , among others. Emphasizing human impact on the environment, the carved lettering ruptures the polystyrene, an intervention that recalls the breakage of the sea ice and systemic violence on the natural world wreaked by humans. The carving further serves to give the text body and material weight, a function of Guariglia’s long-standing practice of pushing the boundaries of photography into the realm of objects, and his desire to communicate not just the visuality of climate crisis, but to evoke the uncanny mix of feelings it produces: uncertainty and confusion, despair, and hope. Continuing in the artist’s practice of creating conceptual reciprocity between his materials and subject matter, these works present a tension between the precarious temporality of the pictured landscape and the intensely archival quality of the polystyrene. #justinbriceguariglia #happyearthday #maruanimercier #Repost @maruanimercier https://www.instagram.com/p/B_SECJvlNLG/?igshid=18w0984tzcmhl

“Basin 02” by @paulkremer at @maruanimercier. Acrylic on canvas 24 × 18 1/10 in #paulkremer #kremer #minimalism #paulkremerart #maruanimercier #interiordesignart #decoratewithart #deepblue #ellsworthkelly #smallpaintings #buyart #artcollectors #acrylicpainting (at MARUANI MERCIER Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/B00xwAHFjkW/?igshid=n9jyfwuidpdz

Happy Earth Day! EXXTINCTION , 2019 Neon text (fabrication photo) Debuting in the 2019 Venice Biennale official collateral event “Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy” EXXTINCTION is a text-based neon artwork by Justin Brice Guariglia, an artist known for his work on ecological issues. A play on the infamous Exxon logo, the artwork draws a direct parallel between our climate crisis and the actions of bad faith corporations, of which Exxon is paramount. The work is the second in a new body of neon signs, expanding on a vocabulary of signage Guariglia began with his widely-exhibited series of highway message boards, WE ARE THE ASTEROID. Running on a loop, each letter of EXXTINCTION -- including its iconic double-x -- flickers out until the entire piece goes dark. Demonstrating the threat of loss posed by climate change. #justinbriceguariglia @justinbriceguariglia #maruanimercier @brooklynrail @labiennale @somersethouse (at Planet Earth) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwjPC2vlHaa/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=ycpx6gbv77j4

Happy Earth Day! EXXTINCTION , 2019 Neon text (fabrication photo) Debuting in the 2019 Venice Biennale official collateral event “Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy” EXXTINCTION is a text-based neon artwork by Justin Brice Guariglia, an artist known for his work on ecological issues. A play on the infamous Exxon logo, the artwork draws a direct parallel between our climate crisis and the actions of bad faith corporations, of which Exxon is paramount. The work is the second in a new body of neon signs, expanding on a vocabulary of signage Guariglia began with his widely-exhibited series of highway message boards, WE ARE THE ASTEROID. Running on a loop, each letter of EXXTINCTION -- including its iconic double-x -- flickers out until the entire piece goes dark. Demonstrating the threat of loss posed by climate change. #justinbriceguariglia @justinbriceguariglia #maruanimercier @brooklynrail @labiennale @somersethouse (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwjNuwZlkfe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q4y4ouw888k6

Happy Earth Day! EXXTINCTION , 2019 Neon text (fabrication photo) Debuting in the 2019 Venice Biennale official collateral event “Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy” EXXTINCTION is a text-based neon artwork by Justin Brice Guariglia, an artist known for his work on ecological issues. A play on the infamous Exxon logo, the artwork draws a direct parallel between our climate crisis and the actions of bad faith corporations, of which Exxon is paramount. The work is the second in a new body of neon signs, expanding on a vocabulary of signage Guariglia began with his widely-exhibited series of highway message boards, WE ARE THE ASTEROID. Running on a loop, each letter of EXXTINCTION -- including its iconic double-x -- flickers out until the entire piece goes dark. Demonstrating the threat of loss posed by climate change. #justinbriceguariglia @justinbriceguariglia #maruanimercier @brooklynrail @labiennale @somersethouse (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwjNuwZlkfe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1axih3zd0od6q

#Repost @maruanimercier ・・・ Discover his work @artbrussels In our SOLO BOOTH - C38 from 19 - 22 April 2018 JUSTIN BRICE GUARIGLIA whose stunning, abstracted visuals explore our planet's environmental crisis from our glaciers melting to mountaintop mining and agricultural exploitation. "Beautiful but terrifying." Beatrice Galilee, curator at The Met. #justinbriceguariglia #maruanimercier #artbrussels @justinbriceguariglia (at Brussels, Belgium)

#Repost @sergemaruani ・・・ On it’s way to Belgium ... so proud to present Justin Brice Guariglia Uunarteq 1 2017 acrylic on polystyrene 163 x 122 cm @maruanimercier #maruanimercier @justinbriceguariglia #justinbriceguariglia (at Brussels, Belgium)