Pioneering video artist Mary Lucier has been creating multi-monitor and multi-channel video installations that examine the complexities of ecological trauma, death, transformation, and resilience in both artificial and natural worlds since the early 1970s. Her solo exhibition at Catskill Art Space in Livingston Manor presents photographs and video works in their recently expanded multi-arts center, also home to long-term installations by James Turrell and Sol LeWitt. Highlights include “Equinox” (1979/2016), a seven-channel work for which the artist trained her video camera on the sun for 12 consecutive days, effectively burning the camera tube with marks that track the movement of this life-giving orb. The multi-channel video and sound installation “Leaving Earth” (2024) is a sensitive presentation of select journal excerpts of her late husband, the painter Robert Berlind, who wrote fearlessly and appreciatively about the inevitability of passing on during his final days. The isolated comment “how to imagine death” appears on one of the monitors of this installation, aptly encapsulating the intimate ruminations of this show.
Catskill Art Space (catskillartspace.org)
48 Main Street, Livingston Manor
Through August 24
