Acanthus/Ailanthus with Kaitlin Pomerantz and Matthew Schrader

Artist talk and discussion with Kaitlin Pomerantz and Matthew Schrader followed by the release of Schrader’s book Ensemble.
About this Event

Ray and Ulises present an artist talk and discussion by Kaitlin Pomerantz and Matthew Schrader on the role of plant ecologies in their work, followed by the release of Matthew Schrader’s book Ensemble and gallery viewing of Kaitlin Pomerantz’s (de)growth.

Talk from 6:15pm-7:15pm, book launch and gallery time from 7:15pm-8:00pm 

Kaitlin Pomerantz is an artist and educator based in Philadelphia. Pomerantz works across forms with purposeful materials to explore social and ecological possibilities under and beyond extractive systems. Pomerantz is the founder of MATTERS, an education initiative connecting materials, labor and land. Pomerantz works in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts and in Fine Arts and Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Pomerantz has received support from  Monument Lab, Philadelphia Mural Arts, Sachs Arts and Innovation, and the Leeway Foundation. Pomerantz also curates, writes and tends to plants and oysters.

Matthew Schrader is an artist working between sculpture, photography, and spatial intervention. Schrader's work explores disturbed landscapes, plant migration, and infrastructure with an interest in the sporadic and unplanned spaces in cities where the so-called natural world thrives against the odds. His work has recently appeared in exhibitions at MoMA PS1, KAJE, White Columns, Franz Kaka, Someday, and Brief Histories. He is a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Emerging Artist Grant in New York City and the Howard Foundation Fellowship in Object Based Arts and Installation Based Arts. Schrader is an Assistant Professor at Middlebury College and faculty in Sculpture at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.