Sat, Sep 17
|Gormley Gallery
Artist's Reception: Suzy Kopf, Orange Crush
Join us to celebrate the opening of Orange Crush, a solo exhibition by Baltimore-based artist Suzy Kopf.
Time & Location
Sep 17, 2022, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Gormley Gallery, 4701 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD 21210, USA
About the event
Suzy Kopf: Orange Crush examines the impact of the American citrus industry and asks us to contemplate the complexities underneath the pleasant veneer built by groundbreaking midcentury advertising. Such advertising coached Americans to associate oranges not just with health and wellness but also with leisure, vacation, and the promise of paradise. Kopf’s watercolors, collages, digital illustrations, ceramics, and site-specific vinyl installations explore this mythology, and reveal its artifice by highlighting the problematic labor practices and catastrophic environmental impact of citriculture