Alexis Rockman, Maelstrom, 2019. Oil on wood. Courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater Gallery.

View Alexis Rockman’s Shipwrecks Now Through May 31 at PEM

This series of oil paintings and watercolors depicts historic shipwrecks and symbolizes the impact that the migration of goods, people, plants, and animals has had on our planet.

Northshore MagazineMay 6, 2021

This spring, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) presents an exhibition of large-scale, hallucinatory paintings that tackle pressing ecological issues. Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks, on view in PEM’s East India Marine Hall from March 6 through May 31, updates and transforms the tradition of maritime painting to create powerful meditations on migration, climate change, and species extinction. Curated by Andrea Grover of Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, the exhibition kicks off PEM’s new Climate + Environment Initiative which addresses our changing relationship to the natural world in order to encourage reflection, inspire conversation, and s

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View Alexis Rockman’s Shipwrecks Now Through May 31 at PEM

This series of oil paintings and watercolors depicts historic shipwrecks and symbolizes the impact that the migration of goods, people, plants, and animals has had on our planet.

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