Brandon Ballengée: The Age of Loneliness
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Acadiana Center for the Arts 101 West Vermilion Street, Lafayette, Louisiana 70501
Brandon Ballengée is a biologist as well as an artist, and recipient of the 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship Award. In The Age of Loneliness he utilizes large-scale sculpture installations to remark and shed light upon the relationships insects, frogs, turtles, and other species have to humans. In the cheeky "Love Motel For Insects," a large sculpture is lit with UV rays, nestled amidst a specially planted pollinator garden to attract butterflies. Another piece called "Collapse" depicts the artist's response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill––a pyramid is filled with specimen jars, with empty jars representing species that are now extinct. These works and others will be on display at the Acadiana Center for the Arts. Galleries are open Tuesday through Saturday, 9 am–5 pm. Free. acadianacenterforthearts.org.