Detail of “Plastic Silurian” sculpture by Christine Wertheim.

On July 12, the Institute For Figuring welcomes its first Science and Art Resident – Christine Wertheim – who begins work on her Ladies Silurian installation, a series of large-scale sculptural forms crocheted out of shopping bags, earphones, cable ties and other plastic detritus. During the Residency, Christine will be on-site in the gallery and will host a series of workshops to create organically inflected forms inspired by the Silurian Age, a period in Earth’s history when the first jawed fish appeared and living things made the transition from sea to land.

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