Exhibition - Translated Landscapes

The Firehouse presents Translated Landscapes, in which four artists redefine, reinterpret, and reconstruct the concept of humanity in relation to nature. Opening July 12, 2024, we explore the interplay between these ecosystems, patchworked together through different mediums and expressions. Tradition and modernity come together.

Featuring works by Chloe Wilwerding, Chuck Brenton, Kerry St. Laurent, and Adam Michael Kozak, these pieces not only fasten together ideas relating to the impermanence of life, but how the space in which we live that life has evolved. Each artist promotes an unexplored reality, tapping into the inherent structure and symbolism behind the environment that inspires them. Through diverse mediums, such as film, sound, embroidery and sculpture, these artists confront the unfortunate truth that nature is being isolated from the individual and tie tradition with modernity to examine how we approach our world.

Artist’s Bios:
Chloe Wilderwing
Chloe Wilwerding (she/her) holds her MFA in Printmaking from Rhode Island School of Design (2019) and her BA in Political Science and Studio Art from Middlebury College (2015). She has been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Taleamor Park and scholarships from Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency and Anderson Ranch Arts Center. She teaches for Rhode Island School of Design’s Continuing Education program and has worked as an adjunct faculty member for Montserrat College of Art. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include A Way In at Colorado State University, Nature Lover at Southern Vermont Arts Center, and The Landscapes Between Us at Frame 301 Gallery at Montserrat College of Art. Group exhibitions include the traveling exhibition Scatter Terrain curated by Ejecta Projects, User Network at Lane Meyer Projects, Prismatic at Dairy Arts Center, Smart Objects/Flattened Images at Well Well Projects, and Putting the Pieces Back Together at Bristol Art Museum.

Chuck Brenton
Chuck Brenton is an Iowa-born artist who pursued studies in sculpture and environmental science. His work blends painting, sculpture, and wildlife observation. Brenton graduated from Colorado State University and has exhibited his work along Colorado’s Front Range, as well as in Crested Butte, Santa Fe, and Des Moines.

Kerry St. Laurent
Kerry St. Laurent is a visual artist from Massachusetts who lingers in the spaces between realism and abstraction, chaos and meticulous detail. Life-curious and death-casual, her mixed-media work references nature, mapping, microbiology, architecture and memory, deconstructing the subjective lens and presenting impermanence as the grand unifier. Kerry received a BFA from the University of Massachusetts and MFA from the University of Hartford, and she is a faculty member at Western New England University.

Adam Michael Kozak
Adam Michael Kozak is a musician and sound artist currently residing in Sunderland, MA. Kozak has worked within genres as disparate as lullabies, doom metal, and plunderphonic sound collage. Since 2018 he has released numerous albums under the moniker Burial Grid and his palette of choice includes synthesizers of all stripes, found sounds, lowquality acoustic  instruments, and emphasizing imperfection through the use of dictaphones, old cell phones, and reel-toreel tape machines.