Paint It\, Black\, a solo project by David Allen Burns\, bri ngs together two forms of carbon — charcoal made from fire-damaged organic material gathered in the San Bernardino National Forest and petroleum-bas ed products commonly used in construction — to explore crisis\, extraction \, belief and transformation. Moving between the living forest and ancient petroleum\, the handmade gesture and the industrial process\, Paint It\, Black examines environmental devastation\, cultural inheritance\, power an d the mythology of progress to further examine Modernism and the twentieth -century American Dream that prosperity could be achieved through the cont inual extraction of natural resources. In so doing\, the exhibition questi ons inherited ideas of progress and considers the environmental consequenc es concealed within familiar narratives of growth\, abundance and developm ent.
Paint It\, Black is the second exhibition in the series The Ne ganthropocene: Empire/Money\, Science/Politics\, Art/Intervention\, a thre e-part research project by Juli Carson and collaborators under the umbrell a of University of California Climate Actions Arts Network (UC CAAN) — a s ystem-wide initiative uniting researchers\, scholars\, students and commun ity partners to confront the climate crisis through the transformative pow er of the arts. UC CAAN is made possible with generous support from the Un iversity of California\, Office of the President’s Multicampus Research Pr ograms and Initiatives (MRPI) grant program.
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270123T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270403T180000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260814T000449Z SUMMARY:Paint It\, Black TRANSP:OPAQUE X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=TEXT/HTML:Paint It\, Black\, a solo project by David Allen Burns\, brings together two forms of carbon — charcoal made from fire-damaged organic material gathered in the San Bernardino Nationa l Forest and petroleum-based products commonly used in construction — to e xplore crisis\, extraction\, belief and transformation. Moving between the living forest and ancient petroleum\, the handmade gesture and the indust rial process\, Paint It\, Black examines environmental devastatio n\, cultural inheritance\, power and the mythology of progress to further examine Modernism and the twentieth-century American Dream that prosperity could be achieved through the continual extraction of natural resources. In so doing\, the exhibition questions inherited ideas of progress and con siders the environmental consequences concealed within familiar narratives of growth\, abundance and development. \;
Paint It\, Black< /em> is the second exhibition in the series The Neganthropocene: Empir e/Money\, Science/Politics\, Art/Intervention\, a three-part research project by Juli Carson and collaborators under the umbrella of University of California Climate Actions Arts Network (UC CAAN) — a system-wide init iative uniting researchers\, scholars\, students and community partners to confront the climate crisis through the transformative power of the arts. UC CAAN is made possible with generous support from the University of Cal ifornia\, Office of the President’s Multicampus Research Programs and Init iatives (MRPI) grant program.
END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:63633635-3362-4064-b833-333637373839 DTSTAMP:20260816T070116Z CLASS:PUBLIC CREATED:20260813T225835Z DESCRIPTION:Paint It\, Black\, a solo project by David Allen Burns\, bri ngs together two forms of carbon — charcoal made from fire-damaged organic material gathered in the San Bernardino National Forest and petroleum-bas ed products commonly used in construction — to explore crisis\, extraction \, belief and transformation. Moving between the living forest and ancient petroleum\, the handmade gesture and the industrial process\, Paint It\, Black examines environmental devastation\, cultural inheritance\, power an d the mythology of progress to further examine Modernism and the twentieth -century American Dream that prosperity could be achieved through the cont inual extraction of natural resources. In so doing\, the exhibition questi ons inherited ideas of progress and considers the environmental consequenc es concealed within familiar narratives of growth\, abundance and developm ent.
Paint It\, Black is the second exhibition in the series The Ne ganthropocene: Empire/Money\, Science/Politics\, Art/Intervention\, a thre e-part research project by Juli Carson and collaborators under the umbrell a of University of California Climate Actions Arts Network (UC CAAN) — a s ystem-wide initiative uniting researchers\, scholars\, students and commun ity partners to confront the climate crisis through the transformative pow er of the arts. UC CAAN is made possible with generous support from the Un iversity of California\, Office of the President’s Multicampus Research Pr ograms and Initiatives (MRPI) grant program.
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270403T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270403T180000 LAST-MODIFIED:20260814T000449Z SUMMARY:Paint It\, Black TRANSP:OPAQUE X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=TEXT/HTML:Paint It\, Black\, a solo project by David Allen Burns\, brings together two forms of carbon — charcoal made from fire-damaged organic material gathered in the San Bernardino Nationa l Forest and petroleum-based products commonly used in construction — to e xplore crisis\, extraction\, belief and transformation. Moving between the living forest and ancient petroleum\, the handmade gesture and the indust rial process\, Paint It\, Black examines environmental devastatio n\, cultural inheritance\, power and the mythology of progress to further examine Modernism and the twentieth-century American Dream that prosperity could be achieved through the continual extraction of natural resources. In so doing\, the exhibition questions inherited ideas of progress and con siders the environmental consequences concealed within familiar narratives of growth\, abundance and development. \;
Paint It\, Black< /em> is the second exhibition in the series The Neganthropocene: Empir e/Money\, Science/Politics\, Art/Intervention\, a three-part research project by Juli Carson and collaborators under the umbrella of University of California Climate Actions Arts Network (UC CAAN) — a system-wide init iative uniting researchers\, scholars\, students and community partners to confront the climate crisis through the transformative power of the arts. UC CAAN is made possible with generous support from the University of Cal ifornia\, Office of the President’s Multicampus Research Programs and Init iatives (MRPI) grant program.
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