Exhibitions
Sunk Shore exhibitions are often a combination of original visual art created for the space, video pieces, archival objects and props used in our tours, and/or printed materials that offer ways for the visiting public to have a personal experience envisioning the future of the local shoreline. Our original works for the exhibitions have included large scale multi-media collages, video stories that expand the single image vision of the collages, and a conceptual sculptural installation of sea level rise.
In Spring 2022, Sunk Shore, in collaboration with Open Source Gallery
Gowanus Canyon 2100
April 10 – June 26, 2022 Great Room at the Old Stone House, 336 3rd St., Park Slope
The first stop on the Gowanus tour was Brooklyn Utopias: Along The Canal, a collaboration between The Old Stone House and Arts Gowanus. The exhibition invited over 20 artists to envision a utopian future along the Gowanus Canal. In Gowanus Canyon 2100, Sunk Shore reports back from the beginning of the next century through a large-scale collage created by Hall and Mac Low. This snapshot of a climate changed 2100 is accompanied by a video that shows a future history of Gowanus, from 2022 until 2100. The exhibition also included a postcard to take away with a series of prompts for contemplating the future of the Gowanus Canal.
Sunk Shore
April 23 – June 5, 2022
Open Source Gallery
306 17th St. Brooklyn NY 11215
The self-titled Sunk Shore was a retrospective exhibition of tour documentation, ephemera, artwork, timelines, and actions from 2017-2022, as well as a two-session workshop with Gowanus residents. (See this link
Photos by Stefan Hagan and Mac Low
Sinking Shore–Portal
July 2021
The WoWHaus, Nolan Park, Building 5B
Governors Island, NY
In July 2021 Sunk Shore exhibited Sinking Shore–Portal at the Works on Water residency on Governors Island. The work, constructed by Mac Low, was based on documentation of a Sunk Shore tour from 2019, and catches Hall and Mac Low in the process of becoming more aquatic in nature. The showing culminated with two conversations about the climate changed future and the role of imagination and creativity in creating new possibilities.
Sinking Shore–Timeline
In We turn… 2021 SHIFT Residency for Arts Workers Exhibition
June 18-July 17, 2021
EFA Project Space
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
323 West 39th Street
New York, NY 10018
For We turn… Mac Low began the practice of creating large-scale immersive collage that has become a cornerstone of the Sunk Shore method. Using documentation of the 2019 Sunk Shore tour, Mac Low constructed an image that manually recreated the layers of a Photoshop file, showing both the far glacial past and the decaying future along the shore of Governors Island, centered around the figure of Hall focusing outward.
Downtown Waterline
June 2017
Works on Water Triennial
3LD
80 Greenwich St.
New York, NY 11217
Downtown Waterline was included in the first Works on Water Triennial and included an exhibition of artifacts and tools used in the first Sunk Shore tour as well a video of the waterline of downtown Manhattan traced from the far past (through drawings by Eve Mosher) to 2100 (constructed by Mac Low based on Sunk Shore research).