Remarks by Rimer Cardillo / 7 PM
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Join us for the opening reception of Deep Ecology / Sacred Natures, a major exhibition by internationally renowned artist and printmaker, Rimer Cardillo. For over five decades, Cardillo’s work has served as a powerful meditation on the interconnected forces of ecological collapse, cultural erasure, and political displacement. His practice foregrounds the devastating impacts of human activity on biodiversity while revealing how the degradation of natural environments is inextricable from the histories of colonial violence and Indigenous dispossession.

The exhibition brings together a selection of Cardillo’s prints, installations, and mixed media works incorporating handmade paper, clay, wood, and organic materials. Moving fluidly across printmaking, sculpture, and installation, Cardillo creates haunting ecological tableaux that ask us to confront what has been lost—and what fragile systems remain. His work draws from both scientific and ancestral knowledge traditions, offering reverent tributes to the sacredness of land, species, and memory.

Cardillo studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Montevideo, the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art, and the Leipzig School of Graphic Arts. Since 1979, he has lived and worked in the United States, teaching at SUNY New Paltz. A 1997 Guggenheim Fellow, he represented Uruguay at the 2001 Venice Biennale and has exhibited extensively across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. His work is housed in major collections worldwide.

Come experience this powerful body of work at its debut at Plains Art Museum. Free and open to the public.

Opening Reception: Deep Ecology - Sacred Natures

Celebrate the opening of an exhibition that explores our deep human entanglement with the natural world.