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Green Chalk Contemporary
February 1 - March 8, 2014Info
- http://greenchalkcontemporary.com
- (202) 253-4507
What does the plastic cap on your water bottle have to do with the demise of albatross in the Pacific Ocean? In his solo exhibition, False Food: A Metaphor for Survival at Green Chalk Contemporary, Jerry Takigawa stirs us to question our relationship with plastic. The exhibition is named for specific elements present in each image in the series: plastic artifacts- which the albatross mistake for food, leading to their ultimate death. The exhibition features plastic artifacts retrieved from the remains of albatross on Midway Island in a display piece loaned to the gallery from the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Jerry Takigawa, the first photographer to be awarded the Imogen Cunningham Award for color work, began photographing in 1969. His work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Crocker Art Museum, The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Library of Congress in Washington DC. His work is currently on view at the Monterey Bay Aquarium: Ocean Travelers Plastics Gallery.