Exhibit Dates

Gaia Rise: Earthbound Offerings will be on view in Goucher College’s Rosenberg Art Gallery in the Kraushaar Center from February 13, 2025 to March 22, 2025. This exhibit, which is free, open to the public, and accessible to all, can be viewed Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Artwork Photo

Artemis Herber, Detail of Melancholia, 2019-2020.

Reception & Artist Talk

An artist's talk will be held Tuesday, March 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Rosenberg Gallery. Email liz.faust@goucher.edu for more information.

About the exhibit

In Gaia Rise: Earthbound Offerings, the ancient and the contemporary converge, inviting reflection on humanity’s relationship with the land, time, and myth. This exhibition presents Artemis Herber’s Gaia Cycle alongside the Lekythos series, bringing together sculptural and painterly forms that explore the fragility of the Earth and the ways in which we memorialize and honor it.

Herber’s monumental Gaia Cycle accumulates and integrates industrial and organic materials, transforming landscapes into precarious, reformed mythical landscapes. These works, shaped by the forces of erosion, extraction, and renewal, embody the cyclical tension between creation and collapse.

The Lekythos series, with its references to ancient burial rites, underscores the act of remembrance as a necessary ritual in the face of environmental degradation. Drawing from ancient funerary practices and the mythological resonance of lekythoi—ceramic vessels used in Greek rituals of remembrance—the exhibition considers vessels not only as containers of memory but as symbolic offerings to Gaia, the primordial mother of all life. These forms evoke a deep-time perspective, connecting the Anthropocene to histories of ecological reverence and destruction.

Together, these works ask us to consider what we leave behind—not just in artifacts, but in the landscapes we shape, alter, and abandon. Gaia Rise: Earthbound Offerings is an invocation, a call to reimagine our stewardship of the land, and an elegy for the disappearing traces of our shared world. Visitors are encouraged to explore to learn more about the artist’s practice through her website.