Terry Evans: The Bur Oak Conversation

Photographer Terry Evans invites a group of 4 individuals into her space and relationship photographing Jackson Park’s 300-year-old Bur Oak Tree on The Wooded Island. Openlands Director of Forestry, Michael Dugan, will join in discussion about Terry’s photographic process and the specific history around the Bur Oak Tree.

This auction experience includes one bidder to invite up to 3 additional participants to visit the Bur Oak Tree. The bidder will receive Terry’s framed photograph, Against Anxiety, Bur Oak, 2020. Dates for this experience will be coordinated between MoCP, the artist, and the bidder.

Additionally Included:
Against Anxiety, Bur Oak, Fall, 2020
Archival inkjet print
Edition: 3 of 10
Framed dimensions: 32 x 42 inches.

Terry Evans photographs the prairies and plains of North America, and the urban prairie of Chicago. Combining aerial and ground images, she delves into the intricate and complex relationships between land and people. Evans has significantly collaborated with local Chicago community members from the city’s southeast neighborhoods, as they fought petroleum pollution effects from the nationally prominent Koch brothers’ petcoke storage area on the banks of the Calumet River. Over her long career, Evans has photographed many different stories of human land use. Her work advocates a repositioning of some human being’s rationale to assess “How can this land serve us?” to a more sustainable approach: “How can we serve this land?” Evans is well-known for her work photographing all four seasons as experienced by a 300-year-old Bur Oak tree in Chicago’s Jackson Park. She has exhibited widely, is a Guggenheim Fellow, and is an award recipient from Anonymous Was a Woman. Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago, among others.

Terry Evans: The Bur Oak Conversation