Semiprecious, by New York and San Francisco-based artist Adriane Colburn, features a series based on global trade maps, shipping routes, and sites of mass material extraction. For this exhibition, the artist references satellite images of locations around the globe to create large-scale mixed-media pieces assembled from intricately cut-paper, metal and wood. Colburn examines the Anthropocene and the power of humans to move, manipulate and see on a magnified global scale. The work underscores the magnitude of our distance from the actual digging of oil and ore by keeping our view zoomed out, at a scale only accessible by map, model or satellite. The title of the exhibition references how we perceive the natural world, attaching value to the “goods” we extract from it.
