"In times like these, it's often important to take a moment and just breathe. And breathing is the theme of a thought-provoking art show now wrapping up its final days at UC Davis' Manetti Shrem Museum. Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice gathers more than a dozen artists who are investigating social and environmental injustice in the world. The lungs of our planet oceans, forests and the atmosphere are under threat, invaded by carbon emissions, plastics and man-made pollutants, write the exhibit's organizers."
"Among the show's participants contemporary artists, but also activists and scientists who work in photography, painting and sculpture is Clarissa Tossin, who presents tangible monuments to the hard-to-visualize effects of climate change. Tossin has made a silicone cast of a peach tree in her garden in L.A., which died due to excessive heat and chronic drought. Brandon Ballengee, meanwhile, has created portraits of marine animals that've gone extinct due to human-made disasters, such as the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill."
Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice assembles more than a dozen artists, activists, and scientists examining social and environmental injustice. The exhibit links the planet's lungs—oceans, forests, and atmosphere—to threats from carbon emissions, plastics, and man-made pollutants. The act of breathing is framed as newly perilous in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and police brutality. Clarissa Tossin displays a silicone cast of a peach tree that died from excessive heat and chronic drought. Brandon Ballengee offers portraits of marine animals lost to disasters like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, executed with crude oil and contaminants. The show runs Wednesdays–Saturdays through Nov. 29, 2025, at the Manetti Shrem Museum in Davis; admission is free.
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