HEIRLOOM
ABOUT
A Mainer whose livelihood was once anchored in fishing and antiques, Brian White is now an artist involved in the difficult business of representing the fragile and emotional connection between object, personal memory, and landscape. This account chronicles over a year of immersive work. White sees an important and fragile connection between the natural and the material, which he believes need reinventing to be saved.
Eleanor Conover is an artist whose work engages with the physical and material conditions of painting as a metaphor for environmental time and space. Born in Hartford, CT in 1988, she received her MFA at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and her BA from Harvard College. Most recently her work has been shown at Ortega Y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY) and C for Courtside (Knoxville, TN). Her work has been supported through artist residencies including Vermont Studio Center, Cow House Studios, and the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center. With an interest in land and environment, she has additionally been involved in the research of geologic histories in Philadelphia, PA, and film work regarding ecological histories in places as remote as the Aleutian Islands, AK. She teaches Painting and Drawing The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
CREDITS
Eleanor Conover