MULHERIN + POLLARD is pleased to present two new exhibitions, running concurrently from January 6 – 28, 2012.

Robert Hengeveld’s new installation project, ersatz, consists of a collection of materials used to create an expansive composition comprised of synthetic rocks and trees, a series of orchestrated cuckoo birds, a clothes iron, fog juice, glass beads, cardboard, packing tape, lumber, hacked wildlife decoys, and many other materials – some created with the intent of mimicry, while others awkwardly beginning to take on marginal references to the ‘natural’ landscape given their associated company.

In conjunction with Hengeveld’s installation, Katharine Mulherin curates Makin’ It Natural in our Freeman gallery, with works by nine artists from Toronto, Los Angeles, New York, Ottawa, and Maine, all of whom present a version of “natural” in their practice, whether embracing or questioning the notion of the term itself or our complicated struggle with it.