The MAC is pleased to present three new solo exhibitions including work by Morgan Grasham, Sarah Lasley and Laura J. Lawson.

In conversation for the first time at The MAC, Grasham, Lasley and Lawson provoke a novel reconsideration of the natural, augmented and astral environments that surround us today.

"Memory Beast" promotes an interspecies dialogue wherein viewers can envision a sustainable and symbiotic future. Through video and installation, Morgan Grasham creates an intimacy between man and beast, dissolving the dichotomy presupposed therein.

In "Venus and Mars: Climates in Dialogue", Laura J. Lawson also facilitates dialogue, not between our Earthly companions, but instead, our astral neighbors. Lawson takes on the role of a whimsical-cartographer, transposing aerial images of Venus and Mars into striking representations of celestial grandeur.

"Welcome to the Enclave" explores the uncanny a little closer to home. In collaboration with Brenna Palughi, Sarah Lasley looks at the relationship between augmented and virtual reality, Anglo-American domesticity and ecological disaster. "Welcome to the Enclave" dissects a glitchy vision of a suburban meta-verse to confront histories of Indigenous subjugation in American culture and the conflicted intersections of race and gender.

Across three exhibitions, the artists stage poignant interventions into the viewer’s sense of place against the slippery landscape of contemporary life.

"Memory Beast", "Welcome to the Enclave" and "Venus and Mars: Climates in Dialogue" are on view from September 10 through October 8, 2022, with an opening reception Saturday, September 10 from 6 to 9 pm.