Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears - Baltimore Museum of Art

Previously On View

Beatrice Glow: Once the Smoke Clears

Date

Sunday, May 15, 2022 - Sunday, October 2, 2022

Beatrice Glow is a New York- and Bay Area-based multi-sensory and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the social history of plants. For her first exhibition in a major U.S. museum, Glow delves into the unseen and unsavory sociohistorical and ecological realities underlying the tobacco industry’s veneer of luxury through her digitally printed and embroidered silk textiles, VR-sculpted and 3D-printed objects, watercolors, and scent experiences.

In exploring the global uses of tobacco, Glow questions the embedded histories of visual culture by critiquing unresolved injustices wrought by colonial desires to profit from the lucrative tobacco trade. The artist weaves together tantalizingly decadent surfaces with imagery derived from historical sources, and examines the networks through which tobacco spread across the world.

While the works initially appear as a celebration of opulence, closer inspection reveals the cascading impacts of colonialism, capitalism, and inequitable trade networks.

This exhibition is curated by Sarah Cho, Curatorial Assistant of American Painting & Sculpture and Decorative Arts, and Virginia Anderson, Curator of American Art.

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Gallery Images (76)

Location

Contemporary Wing, 3rd Floor

Select Artworks in this Exhibition

Beatrice Glow

Colonial Desires

2022

Unidentified

Oval Snuffbox

mid-18th century

Unidentified

Scent Bottle

18th Century

Tobacco Pipe

Late 19th-early 20th century

Lakota (Sioux)

Tobacco Bag

c. 1880s

Lakota (Sioux)

Tobacco Bag

Late 19th century

Unidentified

Snuff Box Decorated with Chinese Figural Scenes

c. 1840-1860

Snuff Bottle

19th century