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O鈥橲teen and Ogasian will deliver an artist talk on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 5:30 p.m., with an opening reception following at 6:30 p.m.  The public is invited to the exhibition, artist talk and opening reception.  Admission to each is free.

鈥淟imnologies鈥� is the culmination of two years of fieldwork on Rabbit Island in Lake Superior, where the artists lived and worked off grid for two subsequent summers, and combines their research and work on the island with countless hours of studio and material experiments. The title 鈥淟imnologies鈥� refers to the artists鈥� varied and extensive attempts to observe and understand weather patterns occurring on the lake, ranging from systematic to absurd to poetic. Simultaneously, the project explores the effect of weather conditions and changing climate on human psychology. 

The work utilizes documentation obsessively collected via a series of site-responsive, portable sculptures that function as observational mechanisms. The instruments poetically measure wind, waves, visibility, water level and temperature, exploring both the possibilities and limitations afforded by perceptual observation. The artists engaged with the sky as cinema, extensively documenting color and clouds, which revealed geographically distant wildfires. Through a series of interconnected systems, the work responds to weather conditions through the production of drawing and sound. It additionally exists as performance (via documentation), video, writing and installation. 

Ogasian and O鈥橲teen work collaboratively to produce multimedia, research-based installations. Their work incorporates sculpture, digital media, drawing, writing and photography. Their practice takes a flexible, idea-driven approach. Their projects always involve fieldwork, and installations incorporate artifacts and 鈥渄ata鈥� collected from the landscape itself. The work focuses on their relationship with the changing environment, and uses methodologies borrowed from citizen science to critique traditional notions of exploration and conquest.

They have been awarded collaborative residencies at Marble House, Rabbit Island, Montalvo Arts Center, Maajaam Estonia, The Arctic Circle and NCCA Saint-Petersburg, amongst others, and have exhibited both nationally and internationally. O鈥橲teen received a BFA from Watkins College of Art and an MFA in Digital + Media at Rhode Island School of Design. She resides in South Carolina and is an associate professor at Winthrop University. Ogasian received a BFA from Queen鈥檚 University and an MFA in Digital + Media at Rhode Island School of Design. She is based in Los Angeles and is an assistant professor at Scripps College. 

Rabbit Island is located near the Midcontinental Rift System, a 1,200-mile-long geological rift in the center of the North American continent, which formed 1.1 billion years ago when the continent began to split apart. The rift ultimately failed but left behind geologic evidence that points to a long history of global environmental change. Scientific research into this region points to a series of entangled ecological systems whose complex interplay is difficult to comprehend and little is understood.  The project touches upon the lake as a 鈥渟ite of memory鈥� by examining how weather patterns have manifested across long spans of time. The work posits that far from being static, geology is a dynamic, living entity that continues to shape and be shaped by changing climate.

The De Pree Gallery is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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The De Pree Art Center and Gallery is located at 275 Columbia Ave., between 10th and 13th streets