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"Moore Adventures in Wonderland" An installation at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA (Sept 23, 2009 - June 8, 2010) |
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"Moore Adventures in Wonderland" is an installation which uncovers the unexpected connections between Lewis Carroll, famed author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and 20th-Century poet, Marianne Moore. Johnson has created a poetic archive and a hyper-visual experience of Alice Through the Looking Glass using photography, illustration, digital collage and selected objects from the Museum’s collections. Much like early museums, the elements of the exhibition aim to represent collections, and “cabinets of wonder” but also reflect the desire to collect and in particular Moore’s propensity to hoard any variety of objects which struck her fancy. Johnson’s installation will lead the viewer on a journey through a conceptual rabbit hole, only to realize at the end of the journey that, like Alice, one hasn’t really travelled at all, but sees the surroundings in a new light.
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Sue Johnson at The Museum of the American Philosophical Society: A series of interventions by the artist (2005) |
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A collaboration with the APS on the exhibition, "Treasures Revealed: 260 Years of Collecting at the APS." Treasures Revealed is divided into eight themed sections that illuminate the American Philosophical Society’s formative role in American history and the history of science in America. Benjamin Franklin established the American Philosophical Society in 1743 to “promote useful knowledge.”
Following in the footsteps of artist-naturalists like John James Audubon and Mark Catesby, artist Sue Johnson has made the observation and study of the natural world the focus of her work. Johnson was invited to create “visual stories” for the exhibition. Her work, dispersed throughout the show, interprets and reinterprets the historical record presented in Treasures. Her 21st-century take on themes such as silhouettes, natural history drawings, moon mania, and atomic bomb testing are mounted alongside artifacts on display. They are intended, she says, “to create a parallel universe” of art objects that both comment on and challenge conventional wisdom.
[From the Press Release - http://www.apsmuseum.org/press_treasures.pdf
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