It’s Not Easy

It√¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s Not Easy is an exhibition inspired by the recent tidal wave of efforts to go √¢‚Ǩ≈ìgreen√¢‚Ǩ¬ù.As new buildings seek LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, as major corporations seek to √¢‚Ǩ≈ìgreen√¢‚Ǩ¬ù their practices, and as global warming puts the ... Read more

It’s Not Easy is an exhibition inspired by the recent tidal wave of efforts to go “green”.As new buildings seek LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, as major corporations seek to “green” their practices, and as global warming puts the need to be green at the forefront, we are virtually inundated with social pressures to be environmentally sustainable. But how is the word ‘green’ really interpreted?
Exit Art asked that question to artists, activists and the general public to solicit their personal responses through email.

The photographs, texts, drawings, graphics and other works in It’s Not Easy are printed on 8½” x 11” recycled paper, giving equal – and sustainable – attention to each work. With over 300 responses, It’s Not Easy explores the multiplicity of cultural, environmental and political meanings of GREEN.

It’s Not Easy is the second exhibition of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), a major new exhibition program and archive initiative in Exit Underground that presents social and environmental issues and the way artists respond to them. SEA will occupy a permanent space in Exit Underground. The SEA Archive will be a permanent archive of information, images and videos that will be a searchable database for scholars and researchers. Central to the mission of SEA is to provide a vehicle through which the public can be made aware of this kind of work, to provide a forum for collaboration between artists and ecologists and to inspire them to continue the tradition of work that SEA presents.
ARTISTS
Piko (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
IOULEX (New York, NY)
Avi Adler (Brooklyn, NY)
Edwin Aitken (London, UK)
Hlynur Atlason (New York, NY)
Hamdi Attia (Philadelphia, PA)
Dan Au (Brooklyn, NY)
Désirée Barinas Ubinas (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
Lorenza Lucchi Basili (Padova, Italy)
Justin Beard (Denver, CO)
Jeff Becker (Easton, CT)
Amnon Ben-Ami (Jerusalem, Israel)
Alessandro Bertoncello (Italy)
Gianluca Bianchino (Little Falls, NJ)
Mark Bloch (New York, NY)
Marieke Bolhuis (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
John Boone (Brooklyn, NY)
Dmitry Borshch (Brooklyn, NY)
Jeanne Brasile (Little Falls, NJ)
Bruno Bresani (Barcelona, Spain)
Keith A. Buchholz (St. Louis, MO)
Jason Burch (Jersey City, NJ)
Jeffrey Burdian
Pamela Calderon (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Crystal Campbell (San Diego, CA)
Laura Cannamela (Valatie, NY)
Hector Canonge (New York, NY)
Sean Capone (Brooklyn, NY)
Anibal Catalan (Mexico City, Mexico)
Sung Ho Choi (North Vale, NJ)
Isoje Chou
Varinthorn Christopher (Portland, OR)
Donna Clovis (Princeton Junction, NJ)
Mark Cooley (Warrenton, VA)
Malika Cosme (New York, NY)
Jay Critchley (Provincetown, MA)
Mary Ellen Croteau (Chicago, IL)
Josiah Cuneo (Brooklyn, NY)
Dame Darcy (New York, NY)
Abha Dawesar (New York, NY)
Daniel de Culla
Jesus De La Rosa (Edinburg, TX)
Helena de Vengoechea (New York, NY)
Pete Deevakul (New York, NY)
Polibio Diaz (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
Rabindranat and Rebio Diaz-Cardona (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Gareth Doherty (Cambridge, MA)
Vija Doks (New York, NY)
Tamara Erde (Tel-Aviv, Israel)
Curtis Erlinger (Seattle, WA)
Zachary Fabri (New York, NY)
Joao Felino (Lisboa, Portugal)
Felicity Fenton (Portland, OR)
Celeste Fichter (Brooklyn, NY)
Joan Fitzsimmons
Nick Fortunato (New York, NY)
Carol Freid (Georgetown, KY)
Lise Gervais (Portland, OR)
Christine Gilbert (Austin, TX)
Jonathan Gitelson (Chicago, IL)
Meira Gottlieb
Anthony Graves (Ithaca, NY)
Cheryl Gross (Frenchtown, NJ)
Marcia Grostein
Carl Gunhouse (Brooklyn, NY)
Kenneth Habarta (New York, NY)
Chris Habib (New York, NY)
Miho Hagino (Mexico City, Mexico)
Sabine Hagmann (Zurich, Switzerland)
Po Hagström and Janna Holmstedt (Stockholm, Sweden)
Sy Hakim
Dave Hall
J.P. Harpignies
Barry Hazard
Gail Heidel (Brooklyn, NY)
Victoria Hibbs (Pasadena, CA)
Steve Hines
Ethelyn Honig (New York, NY)
Sven Humphrey and Robyn Voshardt (New York, NY)
George Jacobi (Mansfield Center, CT)
Kristin M. Jacobi (Mansfield Center, CT)
Steve Jarvis (Atlanta, GA)
Jecca (New York, NY)
Sarah Julig
Naomi Kaly (Brooklyn, NY)
Mollyne Karnofsky (New York, NY)
My Name is Scot (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Kelly Keigwin (Vancouver, Washington)
Jenny Kendler
Erin Kennedy (New York, NY)
Max King Cap (Pomona, CA)
Donna Kozloskie (Cressona, PA)
Ellie Krakow (New York, NY)
Walter Kratner (Weiz, Austria)
Justen Ladda (New York, NY)
Juliette La Roux (Nanterre, France)
Michelle Levante (New York, NY)
Heather Lowe (Los Angeles, CA)
Jenna Lucenta (Staten Island, NY)
Victoria Luther (New York, NY)
Josh MacPhee (New York, NY)
Erica Mapp (New York, NY)
Mitchell Marco (New York, NY)
Ian Marshall Reid (Lido Beach, NY)
Annette Marten (Staten Island, NY)
Victor Martinez Diaz (Patzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico)
Maslen and Mehra (London, UK)
John Maters (’s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands)
E.J. McAdams (New York, NY)
Janet McDermott (Katonah, NY)
Kenric McDowell (Brooklyn, NY)
Marla McLean (Silver Spring, MD)
Christina Medina (Brooklyn, NY)
Massimo Medola (Italy)
Jaclyn Meloche (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Jason Mena (Carolina, Puerto Rico)
Steven Millar (Croton-on-Hudson, NY)
Carmen Mojica (San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico)
Ken Morgan (Coventry, CT)
Leo Morrissey (Seattle, WA)
Susan Munoz (New York, NY)
Rebecca Mushtare (Irvington, NY)
Kader Muzaqi (Wien, Austria)
Aphrodite Desiree Navab and Richard Jochum (New York, NY)
Moises Nifco (Mexico City, Mexico)
Niko Niko
Kristen Nyce (Centreville, Virginia)
Agata Oleksiak (Brooklyn, NY)
Cristián Olivos V. (Santiago, Chile)
Carmen Olmo-Terrasa (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Joe Palumbo (Brooklyn, NY)
Yoonhye Park (New York, NY)
Caroline Parks
Anne Percoco (Highland Park, NJ)
José Pión (Dominican Republic)
Elisa Pritzker (Highland, NY)
Eduardo Alexander Rabel (Brooklyn, NY)
Radek (Brooklyn, NY)
Leandro Ramirez (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Christina Ramirez (Phoenix, AZ)
Ray Rapp
Bernd Reichert (Brussels, Belgium)
Mari Richards (Oakdale, MN)
Jorge Rigau (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Monica Rodriguez Medina (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
Rebecca Rubenstein (Ridgewood, NY)
Fred Rubin (Valley Village, CA)
Rosa Ruey and Paul Kamuf
Matthew Salenger (Tempe, AZ)
Lorenzo Sanjuán (Brooklyn, NY)
Alyce Santoro (Fort Davis, TX)
Jacolby Satterwhite (New York, NY)
Rosalind Schneider (Irvington, NY)
Rachel Schragis (Tivoli, NY)
Gregory Scott (Philadelphia, PA)
Nikko Sedgwick (Brooklyn, NY)
Antonio Serna (New York, NY)
Peter Seward (Lake Placid, NY)
Erin Seymour (New York, NY)
Stephanie Smith (Los Angeles, CA)
Lucas Soi (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
Joan Sonnenfeld (Bound Brook, NJ)
Mike Speranza (New York, NY)
Alfred Steiner (New York, NY)
Simone Stoll (Frankfurt, Germany)
Justin Storms (Baltimore, MD)
Laurie Sumiye (Brooklyn, NY)
Chooc Ly Tan (Reykjavik, Iceland)
Naho Taruishi (New York, NY)
Ralf Tekaat (Hannover, Germany)
Alessandro “Smilee B.” Thompson (Los Angeles, CA)
Diana R. Thompson (New York, NY)
Elaine Tin Nyo (New York, NY)
Teressa Valla (Dublin, Ireland)
Linnea Vedder Shults (Brooklyn, NY)
Carlo Vialu (Brooklyn, NY)
Michael Victor (New York, NY)
Jovan Villalba (Long Island City, NY)
Caralee Walz (Tucson, AZ)
Jason Wee (New York, NY)
Ejay Weiss (New York, NY)
Joy Whalen (Brooklyn, NY)
Chin Chih Yang (New York, NY)
Frank Zadlo (Brooklyn, NY)
Eric Zamuco (Columbia, MO/Manila, Spain)
Adam Zaretsky (Troy, NY)