Exploring other worlds: Cosmogenesis by Lee Hunter opens at John Michael Kohler Arts Center
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Exploring other worlds: Cosmogenesis by Lee Hunter opens at John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Lee Hunter, Personal Items; Collection of materials found in the Temple Collection; E00032, 2021; ceramic, stone, fossil, pewter, scoria, mica, and starfish; dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist.



SHEBOYGAN, WI.- An installation by multidisciplinary artist Lee Hunter explores the narrowing gap between apocalyptic fiction and the reality of climate change, while creating space for dreaming of new, viable futures. Lee Hunter: Cosmogenesis at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI, is on view from January 25 – August 8, 2022. Using sculpture, photography, textiles and a range of other media, the exhibition presents a collection of objects focused on a futuristic narrative developed by the artist.

Set in the near future, Cosmogenesis is an ongoing world-building project told through the perspective of an archivist sifting through the ephemera and material culture of legendary twenty-first century transdimensional travel cults, hoping to find a key to a new cosmos. The archive comprises photographs, ceramic figures and vessels, carved stone sculptures, handmade mirrors, needlepoint, and found objects, each part of coded systems that reveal secret methods of travel through parallel universes.

Hunter expanded the material language for this current iteration of the project, which began in 2014. As the project took shape, Hunter asked, “What will cities be like? What will humans be like? What technologies will be common? What will the climate be like?” They spent time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art looking at global material culture and researched ancient artifacts. Cosmogenesis includes work made during the spring of 2019, when Hunter was an artist-in-residence at Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy. Hunter’s imaginative thinking is also the basis of a short novel currently in progress.

In a recent conversation with curator Kaytie Johnson, Hunter noted “I am concerned about the future of the planet. From people to nonhumans to ecosystems, there are many troubling issues happening now. I wanted to think about changing some of the major systems Western cultures consider to be normal and required. I think many of those systems are exploitive and are fueling the present crises facing the planet.”

Cosmogenesis is part of JMKAC’s Ways of Being, a series of exhibitions, programs, and performances from January 2022 through fall 2023 exploring artists as world-builders, helping us navigate the present, re-orient the past, and project new, viable futures. Among the upcoming exhibitions are: Sarah Zapata: a resilience of things not seen (March 1 – August 28, 2022); In the Adjacent Possible (April 5, 2022 – March 26, 2023); Creative! Growth! (May 22, 2022 – April 2023); Lydia Ricci & Sarah McEneaney (August 2022–early 2023); and Dan Friedman: Radical Optimism (September 20, 2022 – February 2023). In addition, the Arts Center will be screening the following film and video works: Factitious Imprints by Eva Papamargariti (January 29 – May 15, 2022), Void Vision by Alexander Stewart (May 22 –October 2, 2022), and I’ll Remember You as You Were, not as What You’ll Become by Sky Hopinka (October 8, 2022–February 2023).

Lee Hunter (born 1978) is a Champaign, Illinois-based artist born in Charleston, South Carolina. Hunter is a multi-disciplinary artist interested in the built environment, landscape, and perception. Their recent exhibitions include Cosmogenesis at Doppelganger Projects, Queens, and Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn. In 2018, Hunter was a visiting artist at Illinois State University, Normal, and part of a public design team at Leroy Street Studio Architecture that completed a project at the Sunset Park Interim Library, Brooklyn Public Library. In 2019, they were an artist in residence at Palazzo Monti, Italy. Hunter received a BS from Portland State University and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute.










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