OPENING: Tommy Bruce • New Fauna
Sat, May 22
|Santa Fe
If you dress up like a deer and go into the woods, what are you? A deer, a human, or something else? In New Fauna, artist Tommy Bruce makes opaque the clear demarcations of human/non-human, real/virtual, and animate/inanimate through his playful yet carefully composed photographs.
Time & Location
May 22, 2021, 5:00 PM – Jul 04, 2021, 5:00 PM
Santa Fe, 215 E Palace Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 22, 2021, 5-7 PM (The exhibition will run through July 4, 2021.)
Join Ellsworth Gallery, 215 E Palace, Santa Fe, NM 87501, for the opening of New Fauna, a new exhibition by artist Tommy Bruce.
If you dress up like a deer and go into the woods, what are you? A deer, a human, or something else? In New Fauna, artist Tommy Bruce makes opaque the clear demarcations of human/non-human, real/virtual, and animate/inanimate through his playful yet carefully composed photographs of the Furry community. Bruce's own fursona, Atmus—a white-tailed deer—serves as a stand-in and muse to the exhibition amongst a collection of figures in landscapes both digital and natural. Costumes and bodies dissolve into one, acrylic fur becomes flesh, and avatars come alive. In observing their states of pleasure and peril, one is left wondering whether this world is an enchanted utopic fantasy or the dystopian reality of…