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New work by Lori Kent explores collapse, myth, and the poetics of disappearance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Akureyri, Iceland \u2014 New York\u2013based visual artist and writer Lori Kent presents There May Not Be a Bottom: New Landscapes<\/em>, an exhibition that transforms the geological phenomenon of sinkholes into a meditation on instability, fear, and imaginative survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Raised in the American South, Kent grew up near landscapes marked by sudden collapse \u2014 holes that appeared without warning, swallowing ground and memory. In this new body of work, the sinkhole becomes both image and metaphor. Small mixed-media paintings on linen isolate imagined apertures in the landscape: black portals that resist depth and measurement. At once seductive and threatening, they suggest a terrain where disappearance can feel as much like refuge as catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exhibition situates these works within a broader field of myth and spiritual logic. Kent draws on the cultural atmosphere of her birthplace, New Orleans \u2014 a city shaped by extreme climate, layered histories, and Haitian and West African cosmologies where magic remains a practical language for survival. This worldview resonates with Iceland\u2019s own volatile terrain, where rupture is not anomaly but condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alongside the sinkhole paintings, found images and assembled objects extend the exhibition into a space of tension between fear and hope. Rather than offering resolution, the works hold open a question: what forms of imagination become possible when the ground itself cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Artist Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lori Kent is a New Orleans\u2013raised, New York\u2013based visual artist working at the intersection of nature, care, and imagined landscapes. Her paintings and small objects construct idealized or impossible ecologies that invite stillness while confronting the urgency of climate and environmental loss. Through studio practice and community engagement, her work asks how art might cultivate more tender relationships with the living world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A former Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College and graduate of Columbia University, Kent is a recipient of Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants and a Fulbright Research Fellowship. Her practice moves between advocacy, teaching, and the poetics of landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exhibition Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Where<\/strong> When<\/strong> Opening Reception<\/strong> Gallery Hours<\/strong> New work by Lori Kent explores collapse, myth, and the poetics of disappearance Akureyri, Iceland \u2014 New York\u2013based visual artist and writer Lori Kent presents There May Not Be a Bottom: New Landscapes, an exhibition that transforms the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,78],"tags":[238,389,233,368,351,247,273],"class_list":["post-5191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-in-residence","category-events","tag-akureyri-en","tag-artist-residency","tag-artists-in-residence","tag-exhibition-en","tag-free-of-charge","tag-gil-society","tag-iceland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5193,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions\/5193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listagil.is\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Deiglan Gilf\u00e9lagi\u00f0
Kaupvangsstr\u00e6ti 23
600 Akureyri, Iceland<\/p>\n\n\n\n
February 21\u201323, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
February 21, 4\u20136pm
Artist talk at 5pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n
February 22\u201323
Noon\u20133pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"