Entropy book cover (detail), by Diane Tuft.
Please join mixed-media artist Diane Tuft and painter April Gornik for a conversation moderated by Andy Battaglia, Executive Editor of ARTnews and Art in America, to discuss climate change and the environment in connection with their artistic practices.
The event coincides with the recent release of Tuft’s latest monograph, Entropy, which focuses on water and its radical transformation under the unrelenting pressures of climate change.
A book signing with Diane Tuft will follow the discussion. The book can be purchased after the program for $80 plus tax.
ABOUT ENTROPY
A photographic exploration detailing the poetry and fragility of nature amidst the tragedy of climate change.
Since 1998, mixed-media artist Diane Tuft has traveled the world recording the environmental factors shaping Earth’s landscape. Entropy is Tuft’s fourth monograph capturing the sublime and awe-inspiring beauty of nature as it is radically transformed under the unrelenting pressures of climate change.
The exquisite collection of photographs provides a captivating glimpse into the rapidly changing landscapes of our world. Tuft focuses specifically on water as its subject, contrasting global sea-level rise with water depletion in Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Compelling essays by prominent figures in art and science contributed by Bonnie K. Baxter, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Director of Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster University, and twentieth-century art historian Stacey Epstein, Ph.D. add depth and insight to Tuft’s work and its significance in the context of climate change.
Weaving passages of haiku with her beguiling photographs, Tuft’s newest monograph is packaged in a luxe-cloth-wrapped case screenprinted with her artwork Journey’s End featuring the Great Salt Lake. An extraordinary book, Entropy is a dramatic call to arms inspiring collective action for the critical preservation of nature.
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Diane Tuft
Since 1998, mixed-media artist Diane Tuft has traveled the world recording the environmental factors shaping the Earth’s changing landscape. She exhibits and lectures at institutions across the globe. Her work is included in such esteemed collections as the Whitney Museum of American Art; Nevada Museum of Art; International Center of Photography; and Parrish Art Museum, as well as many private collections. Tuft’s publications include UNSEEN: Beyond the Visible Spectrum (2009); Gondwana: Images of an Ancient Land (2014) The Arctic Melt: Images of a Disappearing Landscape (2017) and most recently, Entropy (2024). Tuft is also an award-winning producer of multiple short films, including Coastal Requiem (2019). She lives and works in New York City.
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April Gornik
April Gornik (b. 1953; Cleveland, Ohio) received her BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, in Halifax, Canada. Since moving to New York in 1978, Gornik has gone on to become one of the foremost figures of contemporary American landscape painting. She has exhibited extensively in one-person and group shows in the United States and abroad and is represented by Miles McEnery Gallery. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, the Cincinnati Museum, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, the Modern Art Museum of Art of Fort Worth, the Orlando Museum of Art, and other major public and private collections. She is now based in North Haven, New York in Long Island and is the co-founder of The Church, an innovative artist residency and exhibition space in Sag Harbor.
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Andy Battaglia
Andy Battaglia is executive editor of ARTnews and Art in America. His writing on art and culture of other kinds has also appeared in publications including Frieze, the Paris Review, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, the National, the Onion A.V. Club, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, New York, and NPR.
Sponsors
Guild Hall’s Learning + New Works programs are made possible through The Patti Kenner Arts Education Fellowship, Vital Projects Fund, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Endowment Fund, and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.
Additional support provided by Friends of Learning + New Works: Julie Raynor Gross, Stephanie Joyce and Jim Vos, and S. Kutler Foundation, N. Glickberg, D. Glickberg, and J. Abrahams.
Performing Arts programming is supported in part by funding from The Melville Straus Family Endowment, and Monica and Peter Tessler. Music Programming is supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming.
Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: John and Joan D’Addario, Christine and Bill Campbell, Gabrielle and Gianpaolo de Felice, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Michèle and Steve Pesner, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Jayne Baron Sherman and Deborah Zum, Leila Straus, and Susi and Peter Wunsch.