The Brain In The Woods Presents:
Into The Woods of Your Brain {Spies, Lies, and Nice Tries}
Asha Canalos
Opening reception: Friday October 2, 6-9pm
Artist Talk: Thursday October 15, 6-7pm
Closing reception: Sunday October 25, 4-6pm
at Fourteenfifteen Gallery
Into The Woods of Your Brain {Spies, Lies, and Nice Tries} is a selection from Asha Canalos’s in-progress graphic novel, The Brain In The Woods, which features dual narratives, following two distinct characters in different decades.
One is the autobiographical account of Canalos’s life as an artist and farmer who was pushed to become an anti-fracking activist in upstate New York in 2011, taking on a community representative role in a federal pipeline case. It details, among other things, her 2012 arrest for NVDA protest, the U.S. Court of Appeals hearing in which Brett Kavanaugh was a judge, the subjection of her community to oil & gas related illness, harm, threats, and unwarranted governmental surveillance, and overlapping life challenges, before Canalos relocated to New Mexico in late 2015.
A second narrative concerns the fictional story of an artist and garden designer, Silvio, who leaves Brooklyn, New York, to renovate the grounds of a wealthy couple’s historic estate in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in the late 1990s, at a time when the first energy industry fracking prospecting was occurring in the region. During the throes of becoming ill with Lyme Disease, he discovers that others are covertly living on the massive wooded property, and faces a moral conundrum about this information and its disclosure to anyone. Drawing on research in fields including neurobiology, plant biology, ecology, and environmental policy, 'The Brain In The Woods' focuses on the interdependent welfare of landscapes, communities, minds and bodies as felt and lived realities. The two narratives- through text and through their corresponding sets of painted, hand-drawn collages- ask us to look at the connections between harmed land and harmed people, and conversely, to acknowledge the potential resilience of the body, and the living landscape all around us, in the face of trauma, oppressive forces and harm.
Into The Woods of Your Brain {Spies, Lies, and Nice Tries}
Asha Canalos
Opening reception: Friday October 2, 6-9pm
Artist Talk: Thursday October 15, 6-7pm
Closing reception: Sunday October 25, 4-6pm
at Fourteenfifteen Gallery
Into The Woods of Your Brain {Spies, Lies, and Nice Tries} is a selection from Asha Canalos’s in-progress graphic novel, The Brain In The Woods, which features dual narratives, following two distinct characters in different decades.
One is the autobiographical account of Canalos’s life as an artist and farmer who was pushed to become an anti-fracking activist in upstate New York in 2011, taking on a community representative role in a federal pipeline case. It details, among other things, her 2012 arrest for NVDA protest, the U.S. Court of Appeals hearing in which Brett Kavanaugh was a judge, the subjection of her community to oil & gas related illness, harm, threats, and unwarranted governmental surveillance, and overlapping life challenges, before Canalos relocated to New Mexico in late 2015.
A second narrative concerns the fictional story of an artist and garden designer, Silvio, who leaves Brooklyn, New York, to renovate the grounds of a wealthy couple’s historic estate in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, in the late 1990s, at a time when the first energy industry fracking prospecting was occurring in the region. During the throes of becoming ill with Lyme Disease, he discovers that others are covertly living on the massive wooded property, and faces a moral conundrum about this information and its disclosure to anyone. Drawing on research in fields including neurobiology, plant biology, ecology, and environmental policy, 'The Brain In The Woods' focuses on the interdependent welfare of landscapes, communities, minds and bodies as felt and lived realities. The two narratives- through text and through their corresponding sets of painted, hand-drawn collages- ask us to look at the connections between harmed land and harmed people, and conversely, to acknowledge the potential resilience of the body, and the living landscape all around us, in the face of trauma, oppressive forces and harm.
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Additional Gallery Viewing Hours
Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 3rd & 4th, 12-5pm
Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 10th & 11th, 12-5pm
Thursday, Oct. 15th, 4pm -8pm (Talk at 6pm)
Saturday, Oct. 24th, 12-5pm
Sunday, Oct. 25, 12-6pm (Closing Reception at 4pm)
*And By Appointment
Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 3rd & 4th, 12-5pm
Saturday & Sunday, Oct. 10th & 11th, 12-5pm
Thursday, Oct. 15th, 4pm -8pm (Talk at 6pm)
Saturday, Oct. 24th, 12-5pm
Sunday, Oct. 25, 12-6pm (Closing Reception at 4pm)
*And By Appointment
About Asha Canalos
Asha Canalos is an artist, writer, environmental justice advocate, and herbalist. Her work addresses social and environmental justice; relationships between plants, people, and the land; and themes of resilience / resistance. Canalos’s work develops through research, life experiences, field work, and collaborative exchanges. This has often included working with frontline communities resisting harmful fossil fuel development. As a trauma survivor, who has lived with C-PTSD and fibromyalgia, her projects also examine the neurobiological landscape of trauma and recovery, and identify strategies for individual and collective healing. Her work combines direct forms of social engagement and activism with narrative drawing, painting, collage and text, often reproduced and distributed in book-like formats.
Canalos earned a BA in Visual Arts at Antioch College, and a dual degree MFA in Painting and an MS in Theory, History, and Criticism of Art, Design and Architecture at The Pratt Institute. Canalos’s artwork has been shown at art venues across the country, including The Bronx Museum, Miami PULSE, Pace University, and The Santa Fe Art Institute. She has been interviewed about her work for VICE Magazine, Popular Resistance, The New York Times Style Magazine, Hyperallergic, and Pasatiempo / The Santa Fe New Mexican. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico the last eleven years, she has taught in the University of New Mexico’s Art & Ecology program, and was a Visiting Artist / Instructor for Land Art of the American West (LAAW) and Radicle Art & Ecology Lab (RAVEL) programs, led workshops for Albuquerque Herbalism, and contributes art and essays to various ecological and cultural publications.
Asha Canalos is an artist, writer, environmental justice advocate, and herbalist. Her work addresses social and environmental justice; relationships between plants, people, and the land; and themes of resilience / resistance. Canalos’s work develops through research, life experiences, field work, and collaborative exchanges. This has often included working with frontline communities resisting harmful fossil fuel development. As a trauma survivor, who has lived with C-PTSD and fibromyalgia, her projects also examine the neurobiological landscape of trauma and recovery, and identify strategies for individual and collective healing. Her work combines direct forms of social engagement and activism with narrative drawing, painting, collage and text, often reproduced and distributed in book-like formats.
Canalos earned a BA in Visual Arts at Antioch College, and a dual degree MFA in Painting and an MS in Theory, History, and Criticism of Art, Design and Architecture at The Pratt Institute. Canalos’s artwork has been shown at art venues across the country, including The Bronx Museum, Miami PULSE, Pace University, and The Santa Fe Art Institute. She has been interviewed about her work for VICE Magazine, Popular Resistance, The New York Times Style Magazine, Hyperallergic, and Pasatiempo / The Santa Fe New Mexican. Based in Albuquerque, New Mexico the last eleven years, she has taught in the University of New Mexico’s Art & Ecology program, and was a Visiting Artist / Instructor for Land Art of the American West (LAAW) and Radicle Art & Ecology Lab (RAVEL) programs, led workshops for Albuquerque Herbalism, and contributes art and essays to various ecological and cultural publications.
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