Artists share stories from a difficult world
Artists share stories from a difficult world
El Cerrito photographer Young Suh and poet Katie Peterson know that firsthand and are exploring life’s struggles in their collaborative exhibit, Can We Live Here?
Stories From a Difficult World, at Mills College Art Museum.
The married UC Davis professors have tried living in uncomfortable environmental extremes, from the arid desert of Deep Springs (Inyo County) and the chilly climes of Alaska to the bustling Bay Area.
Suh, co-chair of UC Davis’ department of art and art history, took the photographs on the walls and in the books presented on a set of desks, each housing a white plaster gun in a nod to Emily Dickinson.
“I wanted to tell stories about Western landscapes and the people I had met in them,” Suh says.