ANDREW MOWBRAY
Tempest Prognosticator
September 13th - October 4th, 2008
Opening Reception: September 13th 7 - 10 PM
The Tempest Prognosticator… is a 19th century invention by George Merryweather in which leeches are used in a barometer. The twelve leeches are kept in small bottles inside the device; when they become agitated by an approaching storm they attempt to climb out of the bottles and trigger a small hammer which strikes a bell. The likelihood of a storm is indicated by the number of times the bell is struck.
-wikipedia.org
Andrew Mowbray seeks to explore our contemporary relationship with weather and how architecture and technology continually remove and detach us from the natural world. Hermetic like architecture protects us from environmental factors and our observation of the weather is often through the lens of contemporary devices that use simple and familiar representations of nature to describe it to us (i.e. the internet and Dopplar radar.) In reality, weather has always been un-predictable and unperceivable.
Mowbray is a recent recipient of grants from The Massachusetts Cultural Council, The LEF Foundation and the Artists Resource Trust. His work has been shown with the work of Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, and James Rosenquist at various museums around the United States. He is currently a visiting assistant professor at Wellesley College and lives and works in Boston, Mass.
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