Feedback Loop

Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present Feedback Loop, an exhibition of new and recent work by Alexis Rockman marking his first solo presentation with the gallery. Titled after the scientific phenomenon in which ecological disruption amplifies itself over time, the exhibition highlights humanity's fragile relationship to the natural world, crystallizing Rockman's long-standing ecological concerns at a moment when climate anxiety has become both scientifically undeniable and culturally pervasive. Bringing together new Forest Fire paintings, a suite of related watercolors, Rockman's iconic Forest Floor (1990), and Pioneers (2017) from his celebrated Great Lakes Cycle, Feedback Loop demonstrates the artist's continued and consistently prescient engagement with the accelerating urgency of environmental destruction. Anchored by new paintings and works on paper in dialogue with two of Rockman's now-classic works, the exhibition traces an arc that spans nearly five decades of practice — one that mirrors the evolving cultural understanding of environmental consciousness itself.