Children of the Gourd: Maine artist shows off her modified gourds in Bushwick
Everyone has heard of genetically modified organisms, but how about artistically modified gourds?
Susan Camp is a University of Maine professor and artist who modifies gourds to look like babies’ heads in an examination of our changing relationship with agriculture. Her artwork will be featured alongside Samantha Jones’ creations in Bushwick’s Amos Eno Gallery this month. The exhibition runs from today through Sept. 27.
It’s the first two-person exhibition for the pair of artists who both live and work in Maine. They attempt to explore the relationship between material culture and human desire for control over the environment with their exhibition: Rapture by Proxy.