Matt Sellars’ new work for the exhibition, The Empty Quarter, is a meditation on the loss of resources and natural diversity that results from both unbridled industrialization and consumption, inspired by the myth of American plentitude. Through sculptural installation, Sellars invokes the link between an abundance of goods and products and industrial effects on the planet in the form of massive clear cuts, open pit mines, and oceans depleted of life.

At a moment in time when parts of the American population chant “Drill, baby, drill,” Sellars’ work reflects on what has already been lost.

Review: Seattle P.I.