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August 23 - September 30, 2023
We All Live Downwind | Shanna Merola

Artist Statement:
The images in We All Live Downwind are culled from daily headlines – inspired by global and grassroots struggles against the forces of privatization in the face of disaster capitalism. In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein writes about the free market driven exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries saying, “the original disaster—the coup, the terrorist attack, the market meltdown, the war, the tsunami, the hurricane — puts the entire population into a state of collective shock”. The scenes in We All Live Downwind, have been carved out of dystopian landscapes in the aftermath of these events.  

On the surface, rubble hints at layers of oil and shale, cracked and bubbling from the earth below. Rising from another mound, rows of empty mobile homes bake beneath the summer sun. The bust of small towns left dry in the aftermath of supply and demand. In this place, only fragments of people remain, their mechanical gestures left tending to the chaos on auto. Reduced to survival, their struggle against an increasingly hostile environment goes unnoticed. Beyond the upheaval of production a bending highway promises never ending expansion - and that low rumble you hear to the west is getting louder.  


Artist Bio: 
Shanna Merola is a visual artist, photojournalist, and legal worker. Her sculptural photo-collages are informed by the stories of environmental justice struggles past and present. Travelling to EPA designated Superfund sites, she has documented the slow violence of deregulation – from her own neighborhood on the Eastside of Detroit, to Chicago’s Altgeld Gardens, and Love Canal, NY. Merola lives in Detroit, MI where she facilitates Know-Your-Rights workshops for grassroots organizations through the National Lawyers Guild.
Merola has been awarded studio residencies and fellowships through MacDowell, the Studios at MASS MoCA, Banff Centre for Arts + Creativity, Kala Institute of Art, the Society for Photographic Education, Bulk Space, the Puffin Foundation, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. Her collaborative projects include Detroit Resists: A Digital Occupation of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2016), Oil + Water: Photography in the Age of Disaster Economies with Kate Levy (2017) and Swan Song with Halima Afi Cassells at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2022). Merola has shown her work in solo exhibitions both nationally and abroad at the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in South Korea. She has held teaching appointments at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Wayne State University, the College for Creative Studies, and in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley in California.

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Buckham Gallery is funded by the following organizations:
Generous support is provided by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

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This program is sponsored by the Greater Flint Arts Council Share Art Genesee Grant Program made possible by the Genesee County Arts Education and Cultural Millage funds. Your tax dollars are at work!
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    • Summer Exhibitions
    • Guy Adamec
    • Dustin Brinkman
    • Yvonne Petkus
    • Exhibition Opportunities >
      • Secret Spaces-CFE
      • Mouth Feel-CFE
      • Closed: I've Been Here Before-CFE
      • Closed: Small Works-CFE
      • CLOSED: BYOC Call for Art
      • Jury and PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
    • In Conversation
    • 2024-2025 Exhibitions
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      • ben duke | Chance Factor
      • Russell Prather | Crux/Flux
      • Late Winter 2025 >
        • Sara Paula Hoffman- Midwestern Dolls & Ghosts
        • Daniel Kienitz | Fruiting Bodies
        • Jeremy McGirl - Every Little Bit Counts
      • Winter Exhibitions 1/17-2/15/25 >
        • Amanda Edwards | Little Bean Dude
        • Terra Lockhart | We Will Fluoresce Together
        • Eros & Thanatos
      • Winter Exhibitions: Threshold & Snap >
        • Threshold | Emily Scott Beck
        • Snap, National Juried Exhibition
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        • Dives, Diners & Drive-Ins
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        • Recent Work | Robert J Huebel
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        • Gary Gebhardt Selected Works
        • Tom Nuzum Selected Works
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        • In Spite of It | Yvette L Cummings
        • Clay Vessels | Craig Hinshaw
        • Tipping Point | Craig Cully & Kelly Leslie
      • Summer Exhibitions >
        • I Get My Hit And Then I Run With It | Jessika Edgar
        • Located in the Newly Unfamiliar | Laura Carpenter Truitt & Amy Reckley
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        • Bonded thru Threaded Memories | Boisali Biswas
        • Metaphysique, National Juried Exhibition
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        • High Profile | Ariana Vaeth
        • Donut King | #0591
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        • Contemporary Realism: Four Artist, Four Voices
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          • US | Teresa Dunn
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          • Selected Works Tom Nuzum
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        • Tommy Mintz, Nov. 2019
        • 2019 Smallidge Lecture
        • June 2019: Panel Discussion with John Dempsey, Guy Adamec, and Amy Gibas
        • May 4, 2019- Artist Talk with Stephen Halko and Nick Reszetar
        • April 13, 2019 ​Artist Talk and Deviant Life Drawing Session with Jeanine Leclaire
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