Join us for a tour of Second Nature, an exhibition that explores the complexities of this proposed new age: vanishing ice, rising waters, and increasing resource extraction, as well as the deeply rooted and painful legacies of colonialism, forced climate migration, and socio-environmental trauma.

Organized around four thematic sections, “Reconfiguring Nature,” “Toxic Sublime,” “Inhumane Geographies,” and “Envisioning Tomorrow,” the exhibition proposes that the Anthropocene is not one singular narrative, but rather a diverse and complex web of relationships between and among humanity, industry, and ecology—the depths and effects of which are continually being discovered.

Image Credit: Todd Gray, Cosmic Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler), 2019. Four archival pigment prints in artist’s frames, UV laminate; 60 1/4 x 84 1/4 inches (153 x 214 cm). Collection of Bill and Christy Gautreaux, Kansas City, Missouri. © Todd Gray 2019. Courtesy of the artist and David Lewis, New York. Photo by Phoebe D’Heurle.