Mike & Doug Starn
Wetterling Gallery is proud to present Doug and Mike Starn’s exhibition Under The Sky.
The artists behind the exhibition Under The Sky reflect on the need for solace and moments of peace in a time marked by brutality. Their work invites viewers to appreciate the beauty of nature—especially the innocent and ever-present sky, which stands in stark contrast to the oppression experienced beneath it.
By anchoring harsh realities to the serene vastness above, Mike + Doug Starn encourage a contemplative space where one can reflect on human actions, identity, and enduring truths. The exhibition becomes a reminder to pause, notice, and reconnect with what is both eternal and essential.
Born in New Jersey, USA in 1961, Mike and Doug Starn attended The School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. They have received two National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1987, 1995), The International Center for Photography’s Infinity Award for Fine Art Photography (1992), and were artists in residency at NASA in the mid-nineties. The Starns’ work has been widely exhibited worldwide. Their acclaimed monumental multimedia installation Big Bambú - comprising a perpetually evolving habitable construction of 2,000 bamboo poles - has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2010), the 54th Venice Biennale (2011), the Naoshima Museum Setouchi Triennial, Japan (2013-16), the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2014) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2018), among others.