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(Un) Natural Geographies: The Maps of Ibrahim Miranda and Erin Oliver
April - May 2026 Installation of paintings and sculptural paintings, Wild Space Gallery Paintings on mylar Sizes range from 36 x 24" to 36 x 96" Sculptural paintings on flexible plastic Approx. size ranges 36 x 24 x 12” to 56 x 18 x 10” Find out more about (Un) Natural Geographies with these links: Maps and Mylar Painting Series (Un) Natural Geographies Exhibition at Wild Space Gallery |
(Un)Natural Geographies: The Maps of Ibrahim Miranda and Erin Oliver presents two international artists with distinctive aesthetic and conceptual approaches to cartography through the lens of Cuba and Florida. Long historically associated through the sea, trade, and emigration, the two regions are also geographically connected through karst landscapes containing vast networks of springs, caverns, and sinkholes, that inspire the artists to engage with their natural environments.
The Maps of Erin Oliver For artist Erin Oliver, there is an inextricable link between the natural environment and human beings, an inseparable reciprocity between the living earth and the human community. Oliver’s installations and paintings reinterpret and unite the cartography of geological information with the experiences and perceptions of inhabiting a world composed of multiple intelligences. In her Maps and Mylar series, Oliver renders aqueous fluid marks onto mylar site maps of Florida’s underground karst formations. These gestural marks, layered over geometric cartography, contradict the certainty of the mapped data. In Karst Collapse, the mylar resembles a translucent skin, obscuring the diagrams beneath and evoking a corporeal experience of the mapped geological site. In her folded, sculptural paintings such as Karst Ghost, Oliver resists depicting a stagnant, controlled world. Rather, by folding and forming the map, she reconstructs and challenges notions of spatial boundaries to express the experience of physical land. By cycling the human into the perception of the natural world, Oliver suggests that other forms are not separate but rather quietly familiar, even familial. In the face of accelerating ecological loss and species endangerment, Erin Oliver maps an animate reciprocity that seeks to apprehend our estrangement from the living earth. Written by Leslie Elsasser – Director of Wild Space Gallery |
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