Transforming space, something that has been untouched and preserved, into a commercial space resonates with the tension between old and new, and preservation and innovation. With my work, I explore the delicate balance between the nostalgia of what was and embracing the inevitability of progress.
Acrylic and glass beads on Canvas
18 x 24″
2023
Part of the Divergent Hypotheses exhibition in the Art and Music Library Hallway Gallery at the University of Rochester in 2023. In this exhibition, students from the Advanced Painting class merge knowledge from STEM courses with important Humanities-based questions to explore art and science from curious, integrated, and timely perspectives. One environmental painting suggests an optimistic prediction on how quickly the environment will recover after the disappearance of humans, while another painting questions the ethics of human interference via galactic colonization. As a group, these works feature neurology, psychology, biology, and gender studies, technology, language, history, environmental studies, visual culture, and lives experiences as parts of an interconnected system.
Sparsh Kumar 