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Sam Van Aken artist talk 4pm Sunday 10/26 Dix Chapel: A Tree of 40 Fruit and a Hole in the Sky

Van Aken will present a talk on his past, current, and future work evolving out of David Hume’s quote that a miracle is transgression of the laws of nature. Working in the realms of agriculture, botany, climatology, and communication, Van Aken’s practice expands towards new genres in contemporary art.

Van Aken’s interventions in the natural and public realm are seen as metaphors that serve as the basis for narrative, sites of place making, and in some instances have even become the basis of scientific research.
in partnership with Dix Park Conservancy

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A Tree of 40 Fruit and a Hole in the Sky
Artist Sam Van Aken will present a talk on his past, current, and future work evolving out of David Hume’s quote that a miracle is transgression of the laws of nature. Working in the realms of agriculture, botany, climatology, and communication, Van Aken’s practice expands towards new genres in contemporary art.

Small School in partnership with Dix Park Conservancy
3pm Sunday, Oct 26 Dix Chapel

Sam Van Aken Bio
Sam Van Aken is a contemporary artist whose work melds traditional and
innovative modes of art making, developing artistic genres to create new
perspectives on such themes as agriculture, botany, climatology, and
communication. Van Aken’s interventions in the natural and public realm are
seen as metaphors that serve as the basis for narrative, sites of place making,
and in some instances have even become the basis of scientific research.
Born in Reading Pennsylvania, Sam Van Aken received his undergraduate
education in Art and Communication Theory. Immediately following his studies
he lived in Poland and worked with dissident artists under the former communist
regime through the auspices of the Andy Warhol Foundation and the United
States Information Agency. Van Aken received his MFA from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill and since this time his work has been exhibited and
placed nationally and internationally. He has received numerous honors including
a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, Association of International Curator’s of Art
Award and a Creative Capital Grant. His work has been presented as part of The
Smithsonian Design Triennial, at the World Economic Forum, at the Eli and
Edyth Broad Art Museum. His monumental work, The Open Orchard, is located
on Governors Island, New York City with an expansive orchard planted in
partnership with community gardens throughout the entire five boroughs. Sam
Van Aken lives and works in New York, and is currently the Associate Director of
the School of Art and an Associate Professor at Syracuse University.

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