E Tyler Burton: Evidence of Us at San Bernardino County Museum. I had the pleasure of writing the exhibition essay for this rather fantastic exhibition—a longer text which reads in part: “Burton presents a rigorous archaeology of the immediate present, transforming the debris of contemporary life into an immersive, site-specific ledger of the Anthropocene—a record of what we leave behind, reimagined through a lens of obsessive handmade labor and formal transfiguration…Burton achieves a delicate alchemical balance, as her forlorn materials are lyrically elevated into high-art objects, yet stubbornly remain as their humble selves. We see the blossoms but we never lose sight of the discarded plastic; we see the sculptural strata, but the ghost of the object remains. This refusal to fully disguise her medium forces a confrontation with the object’s history, pulling the viewer into a psychological space where the seductive beauty of the form is inextricably linked to an indictment of its origin and our implication in a toxic cycle of desire...” On view through September 6; museum.sbcounty.gov. - Shana Nys Dambrot