Water Systems 3.4

Summer Ventis
Water Systems 3.4
2023. watercolor. 8.5 x 5.75”.
sky cloud/ground cloud 25

Summer Ventis
sky cloud/ground cloud 25
2023. Image from the zine “sky cloud/ground cloud.” Zine dimensions 11 x 8.5”.
sky cloud/ground cloud 53

Summer Ventis
sky cloud/ground cloud 53
2023. Image from the zine “sky cloud/ground cloud.” Zine dimensions 11 x 8.5”.
sky cloud/ground cloud 66

Summer Ventis
sky cloud/ground cloud 66
2023. Image from the zine “sky cloud/ground cloud.” Zine dimensions 11 x 8.5”.
Water Systems 1.1

Summer Ventis
Water Systems 1.1
2021. watercolor. 11 x 8.5”.

The works in this exhibition are a meditation on cycles of flooding and drought, surfeit and lack. Each extreme is disastrous in its own way. The ways in which our actions have endangered the landscape now endanger us. These climatic shifts can also stand in for other vacillations; in politics, institutions, and ourselves. When the world seems upside-down, how do we contend with the weather we make?

About the Artist

Summer Ventis’s work uses the printed surface to address internal and external landscapes and their intersections; the imprints we leave on each other and our surroundings and the imprints that our surroundings leave on us. She received a BA in Art from Grinnell College and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work has appeared in national and international exhibitions, and is held by collections including those of the Denver Art Museum and Proyecto ’ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a member of the Colorado-based collectives Hyperlink and ARTNAUTS and of Sacramento-based Axis Gallery and is Assistant Professor of Printmaking at California State University Sacramento.