FSU Art Professor Meredith Lynn’s book, Bad Outdoorsmen, was designated one of the ‘10 Books to Bring to the Beach This Summer’ by Hyperallergic magazine!
Alongside books by and about Jack Whitten, Yoko Ono, and Amy Sherald, the magazine described Bad Outdoorsmen as “clever and conceptually satisfying.” Over the course of 76-pages, this exhibition catalog documents a multi-year, multi-media installation project of Meredith Lynn and her collaborator Katie Hargrave made in Florida as part of a Crisp-Ellert Art Museum Artist Residency in the fall of 2022.
Described as “part reality show application, part travelogue,” Bad Outdoorsmen “looks at contemporary American society’s obsession with wilderness consumerism.” Hargrave and Lynn offer a “funny yet poignant critique of a certain brand of wilderness-based settler colonialism — the kind embodied and enacted by the likes of John Muir, John James Audubon, and other White men who weren’t particularly good at being outside, what with the bugs, weather, and all.”
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