Press Release: This Anxious Earth

This Anxious Earth

new work by Seth LeDonne

September 10, 2020 — September 31, 2020

online viewing room: www.LeDonne.studio/earth

Inspired by the last six months of life on our blue planet, Seth LeDonne’s upcoming online art exhibition, This Anxious Earth, will feature word-based paintings inspired by the cocktail of climate crisis, rising societal tension, and a global pandemic. The artworks ask what we’ve all been thinking: Will society collapse? And if so, will there ever be a new world?

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In This Anxious Earth, LeDonne renders bewilderment, privacy, and confession through hidden, distorted, and re-built pieces of text. The paintings in this body of work call into question the facade of normalcy we’ve become accustomed to, while offering humor—however dark—as a coping mechanism. Inspired by and existing in our socially distanced world, the show will be open to the public as an online viewing room, Sept. 10-31, 2020, at www.LeDonne.studio/earth.

fate of the entire world or just call of its people, 24”x20”x1.5”, alcohol-based ink, canvas, and vinyl-based paint on birch panel, 2020

In This Anxious Earth, LeDonne renders bewilderment, privacy, and confession through hidden, distorted, and re-built pieces of text. The paintings in this body of work call into question the facade of normalcy we’ve become accustomed to, while offering humor—however dark—as a coping mechanism. Inspired by and existing in our socially distanced world, the show will be open to the public as an online viewing room, Sept. 10-31, 2020, at www.LeDonne.studio/earth.

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