Endangered Species by Deirdre Luzwick
On view August 3-September 2, 2007. Opening Reception August 3 from 7-11PM with a free concert by Ryan Anderson & The Anchors, and John Whitaker.
Luzwick’s drawings, created as ‘portraits of a dying millennium,’ reflect our own world, but with added glimpses of combined histories and potential futures, begging us to consider the endless tragic possibilities of a world whose primary caretakers are an amoral and indifferent species.
By systematically and laboriously considering a long list of the world’s evils, Luzwick sounds the distress siren and presents a surreal vision of the world heading to hell in a hand basket. The section headings of her book serve as categories under which so many evils can fall – The Assault on the Ecosphere, The Dissolution of the Family, The Dark Side of Science, and The Destruction of Social Being. And who’s to blame for all these evils? Luzwick places the blame squarely on the Human Race. It is WE who are the Endangered Species and we are endangered by our own hand.
Offering no resolution or plan of action, she leaves us no choice but to simply spend some time wondering at her oddly formed world where everything is at once horribly wrong and invitingly curious.
