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Alexis Rockman: Second Nature

August 17 - September 29, 1995

Garden of Unearthly Delights is the first museum survey featuring thirty works (18 large-scale paintings and 12 smaller works) of Rockman’s idiosyncratic and intensely colored visions of our hyper-rapidly changing biosphere. In an age of genetic engineering in which Darwinian natural selection is about as credible as Noah’s Ark, Rockman creates seductive and perverse paintings alluding to the unsettling interface of biology and technology. Using botanical and zoological illustrations and early 20^thcentury naturalistic murals as his springboard, Rockman skews the evolutionary tree to feature marginalized creatures, inter-species couplings, and a wide variety of mutants. His exquisitely rendered oil paintings are imaginative amalgams of science-fiction, natural-history dioramas, and art history from Bosch to 17^thcentury genre scenes. Eerie and entrancing, Rockman’s work “collides our complex negotiation between nature’s construction of us, and our construction of it.” (M. Dion, Flash Art)

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Installation view of *Alexis Rockman: Second Nature*

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University Galleries
Illinois State University
Normal, Illinois
August 17 - September 29, 1995

Portland Art Museum
Portland, Oregon

Cranbrook Art Museum
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

Tweed Museum of Art
Duluth, Minnesota

Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, Ohio