Packed Ice

March 4, 2017

6 - 8pm

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For Packed Ice Greg Lock will exhibit new work from his recent participation in The Arctic Circle Residency which took him to the edge of the polar ice cap. Lock will project experimental circular 360 video footage in the Re Institute’s hayloft. The exhibit will also include underwater films, photographs, and prints from his digital reconstructions of glaciers, icebergs, rocks, and trappers’ huts.

Lock meticulously recorded everything he saw on the three week sailing expedition in June 2016 and has been attempting to recreate the sensation of being in such a remote and raw environment ever since. “It is impossible of course”, he says, “but the act of trying reveals all sorts of things about myself, my beliefs, and how implausible reality can seem”.

Artist Greg Lock (b. 1969, the Fens, England) works at the confluence of sculpture, photography and 3D computer graphics where each medium informs the other, often becoming intertwined. An educator who taught at Purchase College SUNY (Sculpture and New Media 2001 - 2011) and currently at the Hotchkiss School (Photography and Related Media 2011 - ), Lock is also the co-founder and artistic director of Rural Projects Artist Residency and Studios in Gallatin, NY.

The exhibit is open one night only, dress warmly. Aquavit will be in plentiful supply and a potluck meal will be served after the opening.