The Bank Left Presents Gene Rosa - "Installations, Love, and Environment"

The Bank Left Gallery is proud to present installations by late WSU Sociology Professor and Affiliated Professor of Fine Arts, Eugene A. Rosa. Gene was an environmentalist and artist who focused on social, political and cultural issues and their impact on the environment.

The Bank Left will be presenting 48 pieces of his work: “Installations, Love, and Environment” on Oct. 18. The opening reception is from 12:00-3:00 with a Luncheon/Autumn Tea at the Bank Left Bistro from noon to 2 p.m.

This exhibit runs from Oct. 18 to Nov. 1 and is free to the Public.

The term “ecolage” is used to describe much of Gene’s art. In Gene’s words, “Ecolage emphasizes the manipulation of ordinary or found objects to produce new forms of reality. At its core, ecolage is an artistic expression of ecological sensibility. This is not a passive outcome of art for art's sake, but an active relationship between the artist and the world. . . . Ecolage can provide both the mental template and aesthetic sensibility needed to guide our solutions. As art, it springs from the same creative urge as does science and technology. It is another rationality, another tool of human creation. And many tools are needed . . .”

Gene’s work was interdisciplinary and influential among scholars in the social, ecological and physical sciences. One major focus of his work was the importance of a “larger vision” to deal with waste. “What are the earth's ecological limits for absorbing the garbage of high modernism?”

The Bank Left is honored to exhibit his work.

Biosketch:

Eugene A. Rosa

Recent Recognition

2011 WSU College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Career Achievement in Scholarship Award.

2011 Boeing Distinguished Professor of Environmental Sociology.

Edward R. Meyer Distinguished Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Policy in the Thomas S. Foley Institute of Public Policy at Washington State University.

Previous Appointments

Visiting Scholar, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University

Scientific Committee, DIVERSITAS of UNESCO and the International Conference of

Science (ICSU)

Recent Publications

"Choking on Modernity: A Human Ecology of Air Pollution." Social Problems. (with Richard York).

"Collective Hunch? Risk as the Real and the Elusive." Journal of Environmental Studies and Science (with Lee Clarke).

"The Environmental Effiiency of Well-Being: A Cross-national Analysis." Social Science Research (with Kyle Knight).

Human Footprints on the Global Environment — Threats to Sustainability. Edited by Eugene A. Rosa, Andreas Diekmann, Thomas Dietz, and Carlo C. Jaeger.

For more information about the exhibit and luncheon, email bankleft@visitpalouse.com, or call 509-878-1800.