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A History of the Future: The New Landscape of Climate Change opens
November 6 at Palitz Gallery; constructs discourse on climate change
through art
Sayler/Morris, Extreme Weather Events I:
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 2005
New York, NY – The Palitz Gallery exhibition, A History of the Future: The New Landscape of Climate
Change opens November 6, 2014. This will be the first New York City solo exhibition post super-storm
Sandy by partners and photographers Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris, co-founders of The
Canary Project, an art collective. The exhibit is open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. and runs
through January 29, 2015. The gallery will be closed November 27-29 and December 23 – January 4.
The New Landscape of Climate Change is free and open to the
public. Contact 212-826-0320 or lubin@syr.edu for more
information.
A History of the Future: The New Landscape of Climate Change
includes thirteen archival pigment prints from photographers
and SU faculty members Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris’
ongoing investigation of landscapes where scientists are
studying the impact of climate change. Incisive images from
Venice, Italy, The Netherlands, Louisiana after hurricane
Katrina, and New York City after super-storm Sandy
document the often surreal and sometimes catastrophic
Sayler/Morris, Extreme Weather Events
evidence of our changing environment. The meaning
of the images depends on their context within the
larger discourse about climate change – scientific,
journalistic, activist and artistic.
The Canary Project launched in 2006 as a project to
photograph landscapes throughout the world where
scientists are studying the impacts of climate
change, specifically the point in time when human
activities had a significant global impact on the Earth's
ecosystems.
To date more than 100 artists, designers, writers, educators and scientists have participated in this
project. Various versions of the exhibition have traveled the world over including Kunsthal Museum,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Museum Belvedere, Heerenveen, The Netherlands, and the National
Arts Club in New York City. The Smithsonian recently
Sayler/Morris, Rising Sea Level XV: Venice, Italy, 2006
granted a fellowship to Susannah Sayler and Edward
Morris. They currently study the use of archives to construct narratives of time in exhibitions at the
National Museum of American History, the National Museum of Natural History and the HarvardSmithsonian Center for Astrophysics. They are interested in exploring how a sensitivity to disparate
time scales—human, geologic and cosmologic—can deepen understanding of anthropogenic climate
change.
About Palitz Gallery
Palitz Gallery, located in Syracuse University's Lubin House, is the Syracuse University Art Galleries'
visual arts venue in midtown Manhattan. Opened in 2003, the gallery is made possible through the
support of SU alumna Louise Palitz and her late husband Bernard. Throughout the year, the gallery
presents a variety of notable exhibitions from the University’s collection and private and museum
collections.