The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Natural World

Institution
Cincinnati Museum of Art
Grant Cycle
Fall 2021
Amount
$75,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support
Website
www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/exhibitions/natural-world ↗
John Edmonds, Refuge, 2022. Pigment inkjet print, 40 x 60 inches. © John Edmonds, courtesy of the artist, commissioned by the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Natural World, 2022. Installation view at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
John Edmonds (American, b. 1989), What is the way?, 2022. Pigment inkjet print, 60 x 40 in. © John Edmonds, courtesy of the artist, commissioned by the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Gioacchino Altobelli, Castello E Ponte St. Angelo, Rome, circa 1868. Albumen silver print, 9 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches on album page 18 7/8 x 23 5/8 inches. Cincinnati Art Museum; The Albert P. Strietmann Collection.
Natural World, 2022. Installation view at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
David Hartt, The Garden (Papaver rhoeas, Sonchus oleraceus, Matricaria discoidea & Hordeum murinum / Rome, Italy / May 20, 2022), 2022. Dye transfer print, window mat, aluminum frame, 20 x 16 inches, framed 23 5/8 x 29 1/2 inches. © David Hartt, courtesy of the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, commissioned by the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Natural World, 2022. Installation view at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
John Edmonds, Losing fathers we never knew, 2022. pigment inkjet print, 60 x 40 inches. © John Edmonds, courtesy of the artist, commissioned by the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Unidentified Igbo Artist (Nigerian, 20th century), Ikenga (Right hand altar figure), mid-20th century. Wood, pigment, 23 1/2 x 5 3/16 x 4 inches. Cincinnati Art Museum; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Strauss.
Natural World, 2022. Installation view at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
David Hartt, The Garden (Passiflora foetida / Rome, Italy / May 17, 2022), 2022. Polyester, cotton, wool, and acrylic yarns, mounted to linen, wood stretcher, aluminum frame, 114 x 76 inches. © David Hartt, courtesy of the artist and Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, commissioned by the Cincinnati Art Museum.

Natural World is a photography-based exhibition and artist-designed book that explores and expands existing ideas of the natural order. The exhibition premieres newly commissioned bodies of work by artists John Edmonds  and David Hartt, together with new writings by poet and scholar Dr. Jason Allen-Paisant, and Cincinnati Art Museum Curator of Photography Dr. Nathaniel M. Stein.

Featuring over thirty works of art—including photographs, tapestries, and sculptures—Natural World explores an intersection of perspectives on the world informed by nationality, race, queer identity, and institutional practice. The artists and writers involved share an interest in the ways the natural and social worlds are intertwined, and together, they bring new points of view to questions such as: What is natural about the world as we know it? How might we expand our understandings of that world?

 

 

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