Show and Tell - Interview with Artist Adriane Herman

Residential Fellow at Lunder Institute for American Art, Adriane Herman frustrates efficiency at Maine College of Art & Design; studied at Smith College + UW-Madison & co-founded Slop Art. She's had solo shows at Adam Baumgold Gallery; Western Exhibitions; Kiosk Gallery; Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art; CMCA; and SPEEDWELL Projects. Group exhibitions: The Brooklyn Museum; The Dalarnas Museum; PMA & Chosen Barren Land (Taiwan). Her work is in collections including The Nelson Atkins Museum; The Progressive Art Collection; The Spencer Museum; The Ulrich Museum; Yale Univ. Art Gallery & The Whitney Museum of American Art.
I explore accumulation and release in our physical and emotional landscapes, leveraging the power of witnessing to facilitate letting go. After a decade spent collecting, studying, and re-presenting crowd-sourced grocery and other “to do” lists, i.e., archiving trash, I now occasion opportunities for myself and others to offload things and make meaningful connections with strangers through authentic written expression and publicly shared vulnerability. My non-monetized “Emotional Value Auction” foregrounds the generosity inherent in receiving. (Basically, I pay attention to attention.)
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I say this with respect yet with a view and foot in our collective reality. Had we not done to the earth what we have, Hermans practice would not exist. It’s just interesting to consider what has come about as a result of the negative impacts we have had on the earth. She is a hoarder as I define it, yet she has managed to use her organizational skills to make us all consider what we discard and leave behind. It takes me to all the people we leave behind as we move through life. She’s on to something. I hope I encounter the influence of her efforts someday out in the world. Often a creative like her and others are the ones left behind with the piles of stuff, where one has to be creative to deal with it. Well done my friend, I see you.

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Fascinating approach!