The exhibition Voyage on Uncanny Seas, curated by Mark Dion, at
the Gallery Diet in Miami, Florida, convenes a collection of
visual artists committed to a focused consideration of the
Ocean, including works by Brian Booth, David Brooks, Barbara de
Vries, Klara Hobza, Pam Longobardi, Katherine McLeod, James
Prosek, Alexis Rockman, Dana Sherwood, Juan Valadez, and Bryan
Wilson. Katherine McLeod, "Two Triangles, 2011" One of the
themes that provides a conceptual framework of the exhibition is
the occasion of the completion of the decade long Census of
Marine Life, the world’s largest scientific collaboration which
brought together 2,700 scientists from 80 nations to conduct
over 530 expeditions of discovery to develop a comprehensive
view of the past, present and future of life in the world’s
seas. This resulted in the finding of more that 6000 new
species, of which only 1500 have been thus far described. The
oceans were affirmed as the site of mega-biodiversity, and
animals and plants of uncanny strangeness and