Deluge

Inscriptions

Signed and inscribed, on reverse, top center, in graphite: Brenda Garand / "Deluge" / 2014; inscribed, on reverse, upper right and left, in graphite: TOP (underlined) / [Arrow pointing upward]

Label

Brenda Garand created Deluge after Hurricane Irene flooded her home and studio in West Hartford, Vermont. This 2011 event forever changed the landscape of Garand’s life. In the aftermath, she used flood clay as well as walnut and India inks to create devastatingly beautiful images that speak to the resilience of people amidst great loss. Garand stated: I believe that the visual recording of a moment in time is analogous to the oral tradition of history: both are interpretations of events.

From the 2022 exhibition This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, curated by Jami C. Powell, Curator of Indigenous Art; Barbara J. MacAdam, former Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art; Thomas H. Price, former Curatorial Assistant; Morgan E. Freeman, former DAMLI Native American Art Fellow; and Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art

Course History

ANTH 55, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Spring 2021

ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022

GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022

ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022

ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022

ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022

ANTH 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin6, Spring 2022

ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022

ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022

SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022

Exhibition History

This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–April 18, 2022.

Provenance

The artist, Hartford, Vermont; given to present collection, 2014.

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