Marie Celeste is a thematic group exhibition that explores the recent environmental phenomenon of Colony Collapse Disorder otherwise known as “CCD” or “Marie Celeste Disorder,” a mysterious disease that has adversely affected the bee population throughout the world. Scientists have described CCD as a disorder that particularly affects worker bees—they completely disappear from their hives, without completing their duties. While scientists, farmers, entomologists, and climatologists debate the origins of this disease, all agree that the effects of the rapidly diminishing bee population are having a subtle yet profound impact on the production of food, local ecologies, and the global economy. The works in this exhibition explore the conflicts between individual and collective actions, and probe the boundaries that surround our moral and ethical obligations to care for our environment.

Featured artists for Marie Celeste include: Erika Blumenfeld, Stephen Bush, Nick Lamia, Jason Middlebrook, Shari Mendelson, Mayumi Nishida, Jessica Schwind, Joseph Smolinksi, Eva Struble, Tattfoo Tan, Alison Williams