Irene Kopelman - Here and Elsewhere

Here and Elsewhere is a project that brings together a series of drawings of rock formations and a 1:1 scale replica of marble-shaped rocks, known as concretions. Kopelman made two field trips to Utah between 2018 and 2019 to explore the otherworldly features of the concretions. The resulting works - crayons on paper and hand-made ceramic sculptures - reveal the ways in which the artist goes about mapping and drawing a geological location, and how art practice can be a way of thinking about geological processes and the design of nature - constantly changing, tireless in its creation of new forms and patterns.