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| Charles Mary Kubricht’s New Permanent Site-Specific Installation “Environmental Exigencies” in the Brochstein Pavilion at Rice University by june mattingly // regularmain.com “Our culture recognizes the fragility of natural areas. Greatly reduced to a scale by development and managed by humans, these protected landscapes have become ‘museums’ dedicated to what is significant, valuable and beneficial…Rice University has preserved its natural landscapes similarly by taking great care to preserve the magnificent trees and green space on its campus, from the beginning of this project. I conceptualized the Rice campus as a tree museum…” |
| Kubricht’s new project in the Brochstein Pavilion - four striking four foot by eight foot black and white photographs - cover the walls opposite the refreshment kiosk. These photographs, her artistic snapshot of her environmental commitment, depict four leaves, each from a different indigenous oak tree on the Rice campus and photographed with a high-resolution camera. Her work “about observation of detail, the “complexity of nature” becomes obvious when the photographs are magnified to a height of six feet. Kubricht relates their scale to Alice's adventures in Wonderland - after taking a shrinking potion when looking at the overblown leaves. She started as a painter, but after being so inspired by nature she chose photography to capture her vision. Now her small point-and- shoot camera is her sketchbook. |
| Taxonomy of Unusual Events on the Mountain, 2010, installation view (left) Spider Web collection, 2010 , framed archival pigment prints on shelves, 53 x 48 inches installed, 12 x 9 inches each (middle) Spider Web grid, 2010, archival pigment prints, 84 x 112 inches installed, each 12 x 16 inches (right) Installation of 9 framed works on paper & photographs, 2010 |
| A Houstonian, Kubricht received her MFA from the University of Houston. On her one-person exhibitions list are the Austin Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston and the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi.. |
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| Mostly since the 60s photography is used to document short-lived events such as conceptual, video and performance art as Kubricht’s art “re-presents” her memory of ephemeral art events in the natural world. Her tracking of these “traveling images” develops a continuum of images – an art form unto themselves. An example is a photograph taken on Mt. Livermore that went from her studio to a centerfold of BOMB magazine, re-photographed in the centerfold and later part of the Rice installation. Proceeds from the sales of Kubricht’s multi-media body of work (paintings, prints and photographs) titled “Taxonomy of Unusual Events on the Mountain” are donated to the Nature Conservancy, a non-profit dedicated to purchasing land to protect it from development. The chapter to receive this gift is in the Davis Mountains near Marfa where Kubricht lives. She specifically wishes to preserve Mount Livermore, 50 miles from the U.S./Mexico border, a former landmark for drug traffickers. |
| Kubricht’s studio in Marfa |