“Meet the Artist”
Virginia Hanusik and Nicholas Pollack
September 28, 2023
5:30 – 7:30 pm
474 Broadway, Kingston, NY
On Thursday, September 28, we welcome Virginia Hanusik and Nicholas Pollack to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. Hanusik will be presenting recent projects focused on landscapes of extraction and the visual narrative of climate change. She will also be discussing themes from her upcoming book Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana which explores complicating disaster-oriented narratives—and the imagery and imaginations that come with them—through the photography of South Louisiana’s built and natural environments. Pollack will be presenting an overview of his work to date, and discussing his artistic practice. His work generally addresses the relationship between people and place, often looking at particular communities linked to specific sites over a period of time. Pollack will have copies of his book Meadow for sale. This event will be live-streamed on CPW’s Youtube Page at 6 pm.
Join us every Thursday evening at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. “Meet the Artist” allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 474 Broadway in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served. “Meet the Artist” is made possible by a generous grant from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.
Virginia Hanusik is an artist whose projects investigate the relationships between landscape, architecture, and visual culture. Her work has been exhibited internationally, featured in The New Yorker, National Geographic, British Journal of Photography, Places Journal, The Atlantic, MAS Context, and Oxford American among others, and supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, Pulitzer Center, Graham Foundation, Landmark Columbus Foundation, and Mellon Foundation. She regularly writes and speaks on landscape representation and the visual narrative of climate change, and is on the board of directors of The Water Collaborative of Greater New Orleans where she coordinates multi-disciplinary projects on the climate crisis and is a founding member of the Brackish Artist Collective.
Hanusik has been a recipient of the Decade of Change Award (2020), a Photography Fellow with Exhibit Columbus (2020-2021) where her multi-year project on the Mississippi River watershed explored the history of flooding and politics of disasters in the region, a Rising: Climate in Crisis Resident at Tulane University’s A Studio in the Woods (2022), and a Creative Capital Award finalist (2022).
Her first book “Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana” will be published in spring 2024 by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City. She received her BA from Bard College and lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Nicholas Pollack is a photographer based in New York whose recent monograph Meadow (2022) is published by Hirmer Verlag of Munich. His works have been exhibited internationally and are held in collections including the Museum of the City of New York and the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. In 2016, he was nominated for an ICP Infinity Award, MACK First Book Award, and he was shortlisted at Self Publish Riga. He published a monograph of his celebrated project Nothing Gold Can Stay (2015) which can be found in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art Library and the Museum of Modern Art Library. Publications that have featured his work include Juxtapoz Magazine, Vice, and Vogue.
Banner image credit: Nicholas Pollack (left), Virginia Hanusik (right)