NYU’s Gallatin Galleries Presents Tali Weinberg’s First New York Solo Show October 30—November 26

"Tree Ring" (1 of 80). Photo courtesy of the artist.

NYU's Gallatin Galleries presents Heartwood, a solo exhibition of weavings and sculptures by Tali Weinberg that explores the multidimensional relationships between humans and trees, particularly the harm that fossil fuel extraction inflicts on both. The exhibition runs October 30-November 26, 2024 at the galleries, 1 Washington Pl (and Broadway) in Greenwich Village.

Weinberg says her work simultaneously references landscapes and the human body to trace the connections between rising temperatures, illness, species loss, and the proliferation of plastic. Her work spans multiple processes, including dyeing, coiling, coding data, and weaving on hand and computer-assisted looms.

"The exhibition brings together a deeply researched and personal view of nature as a system of which we are a part, not something separate from the human experience," says Keith Miller, the gallery's curator. "Tali combines the aesthetic tradition of textiles with climate concerns and data, and has a remarkable ability to create works that are simultaneously complex, beautiful, and poignant."

Weinberg weaves silhouettes of endangered tree species from plastic and plant fibers and suspended upside down to evoke lungs, arteries, and roots. Thousands of tourniquets-expired, petrochemical-derived waste once intended to slow bleeding-are coiled into colorful tree rings. Hand-dyed cotton thread, color-coded to climate data, is wrapped around snaking vines of medical tubing to portray rising temperatures. Issues of discarded New York Times Magazines are shredded, spun, and woven into tactile color fields to represent the climate and health crises featured in their pages.

"My hope is that this exhibition offers space to reflect and consider the possibilities that emerge when we retrace and reimagine frayed relationships between corporeal and ecological bodies," Weinberg says. "In response to a time of loss and fragmentation, I look to trees' heartwood-their dead but strong inner cores-as embodiments of how grief has the potential to hold us up as we worktowards a reimagined future."

Weinberg's works are in the collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, the Georgia Museum of Art, and the Denver Botanic Gardens and have been exhibited internationally, including at Griffith Art Museum (Australia), Zhejiang Art Museum (China), 21C Museum (Oklahoma City), University of Colorado Boulder Art Museum, Center for Craft (Asheville, NC), and Dreamsong (Minneapolis). Her artwork has been featured in the Fifth National Climate Assessment, the New York Times, Colossal, National Resource Defense Council's onEarth Magazine, Surface Design Journal, American Craft, and Ecotone. She is the recipient of an Illinois Artist Fellowship, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Serenbe Fellowship, Windgate Fellowship to Vermont Studio Center, a residency at New York's Museum of Art and Design, and grants from the Puffin Foundation, Illinois Arts Council, and Oklahoma Arts Council. Weinberg earned an MFA from the California College of the Arts and an interdisciplinary MA and BA from New York University. She lives in Champaign-Urbana, IL and is currently the College of Arts and Science Artist in Residence at the University of Missouri.

Heartwood is on view Monday-Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Saturday from 10:00 am. to 5:00 p.m. An opening reception is October 30 from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

About Gallatin Galleries
Housed in New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, the Gallatin Galleries showcases innovative and immersive work that blends multiple forms of artistic practice with themes that encompass economic, racial, and social justice. Founded in 2008 and curated by Keith Miller, the Galleries are home to complex and compelling displays that integrate video, photography, sound, painting, and sculpture, illuminating the work of both up-and-coming and established artists while reflecting the interdisciplinary academic mission of the Gallatin School. For more information, please visit https://wp.nyu.edu/gallatingalleries/