Fouling Communities by Perrin Ireland

Fouling Communities is a visual study of the marine invertebrates populating Buttermilk Channel and broader New York Harbor. Based on research by students at the Harbor School, this work explores the building patterns of soft bodies through mixed media on paper, canvas, and mylar.

The animals included are sometimes referred to by science as being members of “fouling communities” because of the way they “colonize” man-made structures in bodies of water like piling, ship hulls, and marinas. These paintings examine soft tissue communities expanding and iterating themselves.

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2021 Triennial Exhibition - July 31st

This installment of Works on Water’s three year triennial turns to concepts of long-term care for our urban waterfront ecology and reconsideration of water time-scales. WoWhaus Resident artists’ and Tending the Edge artists’ projects call attention to marginalized ecological community members, and to water’s cycles of time and being.