Curatorial project with artist Sarah Olson
Governors Island, Swale House
Nolan Park – Building 11
October 28-29
Rise All Boats: A World Water Map, artist Sarah Olson and writer Khadija Kamara’s project, is a series charting human migration, personal and ancestral, deliberate and involuntary, through performative drawing, essays, mapping and oral histories. This traveling map project focuses on the idea of water as geography and human migration as fluid.
This is part of Swale House’s efforts to exhibit artwork that present multiple lenses for viewing our relationships with soils, and prompts the viewer to ask: WHAT IF we imagine human-animal-soil interactions in ways that support healthier lives for all species?
About Sarah Olson
Sarah Olson is a painter and performance artist whose recent work explores lost and layered histories. Her work has been exhibited at Marymount Manhattan College, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, DA Gallery, Gallery Satori, Dahesh Museum, Columbia University in NYC; and the Rivington Gallery and Museum of Design in London. She has created numerous installations and collaborative performances most notably at the Joyce SoHo, Summer Stage in Central Park, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and on residencies in remote locations in India, Scotland, England and El Salvador. Her work is in the collections of Bruce W. Ferguson, Eric Fischl and Eileen Guggenheim. She holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. www.sarah-olson.com