Permanence
January 4 – January 27, 2019
In her work, Sethi explores our experience of the natural world, our impact on it, and its relationship to our built environment. These objects and systems examine the ways in which the world we see and move through can be modeled visually and experientially. By layering natural materials and processes, such as ice and erosion, together with technological interventions, such as reproduction and isolation, these works are at once both actions and images, both the event at hand and the record or trace used to represent it through time. These works reference a broader view of our world as a landscape both inhabited by and studied by humankind, altered even as it is observed – understanding the world as simultaneously the location and the material of our pursuit of meaning.
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Samantha Sethi’s interdisciplinary practice incorporates installation, sculpture, drawing, and video. Through these various forms, the artist explores concepts of ephemerality, entropy, human impact on the environment, and our experience of time. Sethi received her MFA from American University and BFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, CA; the Creative Alliance in Baltimore; the Washington Project for the Arts in Washington, D.C.; Field Projects, NYC; and Hilbert Raum project space in Berlin. Sethi’s collaborative project Solar Power/Solar System was commissioned last spring for Baltimore’s Light City Art Walk 2018. She is currently an adjunct professor at University of Maryland Baltimore County and an Artist-in-Residence at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD where she will have her next solo exhibition opening January 26th.
