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?
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.
Seth LeDonne creates work that highlights the challenges and profoundness of everyday life. His recent bodies of work have examined rural identity and masculinity, reliance on technology, our relationship with the natural world, apocalyptic poetry, and mental wellness. His works often contain original, hand-written poetic compositions. Attention to the details that arise in rejecting perfectionism is a thematic and aesthetic element of his work. LeDonne has exhibited his paintings, drawings, and installations in solo exhibitions at Bunker Projects, The Mine Factory, and The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, and he was selected to create artwork for the Museum Shop at Fallingwater. He currently lives and works in New York City.
