The four honorees
include environmental artist Lita Albuquerque, American assemblage artist Betye Saar, and multimedia artists Helen Pashgian and Nancy Rubins.
Not exact matches
Whimsical drawings by Malcolm Wells (world - renowned architect,
artist, and author of several books,
including The Earth - Sheltered Home, Classic Architectural Birdhouses, Recovering America, InfraStructures, and How to Build an Underground House) throughout the book make this a must for every bathroom library, a great gift for gardeners (and anyone who urinates), and an enlightening problem - solver for
environmental planners dealing with the nutrient pollution of water.
Names returning to Infinity Ward
include the studio's former lead designer John Mundy, art lead Joel Emslie, animation lead Mark Grigsby, and senior
environmental artist Joshua Dunnam.
Her work as a curator
includes exhibits «The «F» Word: Feminism in Art» a group show of 20 female
artists, «Human / Nature» a group show revolving around
environmental themes and «Allegories of The Held», a solo show of works by
artist Jennifer Caviola aka Cake, as well as «The Voyeur» exhibit at Art Basel Miami sponsored by The American Friends of The Louvre.
Including Pilar Albarracin, Karen Finley, Pearl C. Hsiung, Glenn Kaino, Mike Kelley, Martin Kersels, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Rodney McMillian, and Robin Rhode, these
artists reference subjects such as war and terror, social and racial tension, urban and
environmental disaster, psychological break - down, and criminal behavior in a range of mixed media and video installations.
In addition to the projects organized by Prospect.2, a number of
artists,
including Canadian sculptor Michel de Broin,
environmental artist Brandon Ballengee, and Seattle - based Don and Patricia Fels, are developing major new projects that will premiere simultaneously in New Orleans.
His poetic use of found materials and his embrace of chance operations (whether dragging a canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb the
environmental stains of the studio, or exposing the paintings to the forces of weather) can be seen echoed in the work of a subsequent generation of
artists,
including Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Urs Fischer, Wade Guyton, and Nate Lowman, among others.
About the Juror: Curator at The Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, New York, Lisa Chalif has organized dozens of exhibitions that focus on various aspects of the Museum's permanent collection, as well as loan exhibits on a diverse range of subjects,
including experimental photography,
environmental art, appropriation, art and the automobile, and occasional solo exhibitions of Long Island
artists,
including photographer Joseph Szabo.
Laurence Miller (20 West 57th Street), has modern and contemporary Asian photographs,
including the quiet
environmental - abstractions of the Japanese
artist Toshio Shibata.»
Opening: «If Only Bella Abzug Were Here» at Marc Straus Equal rights activist and Women's
Environmental and Development Organization (WEDO) founder Bella Abzug is the subject of this group exhibition, which is jam - packed with an amazing lineup of women
artists,
including Nicole Eisenman, Anj Smith, Ann Craven, Holly Coulis, Sarah Crowner, Shirin Neshat and others.
Longlisted and shortlisted
artists have gone on to achieve great success,
including Jason deCaires Taylor, creator of the first underwater sculpture park in Grenada and recently the
artist behind an
environmental installation on the banks of the River Thames.
Established in 2015, the AER programme invites
artists and designers to explore concerns that define the twenty - first century —
including biodiversity,
environmental sustainability, social economy and human rights — and through artistic practice, envision a world of tomorrow.
«Seismic Shifts» will showcase
artists and architects whose work challenges disciplinary boundaries and raises critical social,
environmental and political issues and will
include painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, mixed media, video, and architectural models created between 2005 and 2012, with a number of new works featured.
As the wall label informs, despite the fact that the hospital provided health care to residents (
including the
artist's family) suffering from exposure to
environmental toxins released by the steel mills and was the town's largest employer, the hospital closed its doors in January 2010 and was subsequently demolished.
Contributors
include Dale Jamieson, Professor of
Environmental Studies and Philosophy, New York University; Chis Wiley,
artist, writer, and independent curator; Joel Sternfeld,
artist and Noble Foundation Chair in Art and Cultural History, Sarah Lawrence College; and Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Art Gallery, New York University.
Exhibitions feature an international roster of emerging and mid-career
artists working in a range of media,
including painting, photography, sculpture, installation, and performance, who are connected by their focus on political, social, and
environmental issues of national and global concern.
Atlas comes alive through programming: Beginning in May 2016, the Queens Museum presents a series of public talks, walks, and urban adventures led by the essay writers from the book,
artists, and other imaginative thinkers addressing topics
including water and power, linguistic diversity in Queens, walking as an embodied act, the conjoined histories of
environmental and financial disaster in Lower Manhattan, wilderness in the City, and Latino radio in NYC.
In their practice the
artists use multidisciplinary forms, which
include situationist interventions, workshops and installations that serve as platform for
environmental experience.
The most significant of the often loosely defined movements of early contemporary art
included pop art, characterized by commonplace imagery placed in new aesthetic contexts, as in the work of such figures as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein; the optical shimmerings of the international op art movement in the paintings of Bridget Riley, Richard Anusziewicz, and others; the cool abstract images of color - field painting in the work of
artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Frank Stella (with his shaped - canvas innovations); the lofty intellectual intentions and stark abstraction of conceptual art by Sol LeWitt and others; the hard - edged hyperreality of photorealism in works by Richard Estes and others; the spontaneity and multimedia components of happenings; and the monumentality and
environmental consciousness of land art by
artists such as Robert Smithson.
Carson has been the recipient of numerous awards and prizes
including the 1999 Rome Prize, the 1998 and 2004 New York Foundation for the Arts
Artists Fellowship in Architecture /
Environmental Structures Awards, the 2011 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual
Artist Fellowship, and a 2006 Durfee Award.
Each
artist featured takes acute notice of the physical world at a time of heightened awareness of the landscape, informed by today's concerns
including climate change,
environmental health, conservation and the green movement.
Established
artists like SWOON, reimagine the Street Art aesthetic, offering sophisticated commentary on economic and
environmental issues through work that
includes intricately cut wheat paste stencils, floating sculptures and installations made of scavenged, found and low - fi materials.
It
includes works by
environmental artists Bob Braine and Leslie Reed; multi-media and performance
artist Andrea Cote; and self - taught
artist / curator Candyce Brokaw, founder of Survivors Art Foundation, an organization that promotes the work of all who have suffered physical and mental abuse.
Jessica Stockholder is
included in the Palmer Museum of Art's group exhibition Plastic Entanglements, which brings together sixty works by thirty contemporary
artists to explore the
environmental, aesthetic, and technological entanglements of our ongoing love affair with this paradoxical, infinitely malleable substance.
Notable galleries for 2014
include: Kevin Kavanagh (Dublin), presenting a storytelling series by Sonia Shiel, current ISCP NY
artist - in - residence and recipient of Ireland's 2014 Arts Council Project Award; Laura Bulian Gallery (Milan), highlighting career Conceptualist Vyacheslav Akhunov, whose cultural investigations were featured in dOCUMENTA (13) and the 2013 Venice Biennale's Central Asian Pavilion; contemporary Bahamanian art hub Popopstudios (Nassau), spotlighting «everyday» assemblages and mixed - media works by founder John Cox; Frederieke Taylor Gallery (New York), revealing
environmental concerns of downtown stalwart Christy Rupp, whose seminal public art projects factored into the 2012 exhibition Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969 - 1989 at the New Museum; Galerie Heike Strelow (Frankfurt am Main), combining sociopolitical commentary and black humor via Florian Heinke, who curated System of Diplomatic Chaos at Kunstverein Wiesbaden last year; and CONNERSMITH.
In addition to a selection of Lynch Fragments spanning the
artist's half - century career, Melvin Edwards: Five Decades will also
include groundbreaking
environmental works in barbed wire, midsize and large - scale sculptures, maquettes reflecting Edwards's long career in public sculpture, rarely seen drawings, and a selection of his sketchbooks.
As a result, many new types and forms of sculpture were pioneered by American
artists,
including monumental stonework (Mount Rushmore), Kinetic art (mobiles), assemblage, minimalist structures, photorealist statues, pop sculptures,
environmental earthworks, and multi-media sculpture.
Other
artists are more specifically metaphorical: Frank Moore, let's say, whose fantastical paintings of Yosemite National Park and Niagara Falls refer to
environmental erosion and physical illness,
including AIDS.
His exhibitions
include «Alphabet»
environmental installation, Gas Museet Hobro Land - Shape, N. Jutland, Denmark (2016); «Isn't White» installation on the grounds of Marble House Project, Dorset, VT (2015); «These Trees»
environmental installation, Penn Tech College, Williamsport, PA (2014); «Moments» prints & drawings, Artistree Gallery, Woodstock, VT (2014); «Moment» limited edition
artist's letterpress book with original cyanotypes prints and afterward by Robert Macfarlane, published by K2Family Foundation (2014).
British conceptual
artist Simon Starling (born 1967) interrogates the histories of art and science, as well as other subjects such as economic and
environmental issues, through a wide variety of media
including film, installation and photography.
Including artist Kelly Richardson, Dr Mel Woods who puts
environmental monitoring digital tools in the hands of citizens, and Dr Julian Manley who specialises in the psychosocial approach to the implications of climate change, chaired by curator and writer Dr Sarah Cook.
The
artists included in Custom Car Commandos utilize the auto body as a vehicle for socioeconomic, political,
environmental, and psychological phenomena brought about by the current crisis.
Sri's awards
include inclusion in The Photo Review Competition Issue (2015), Broward
Artists grant, Brush Creek Arts Foundation, and National Socio - Environmental Synthesis Center artists» res
Artists grant, Brush Creek Arts Foundation, and National Socio -
Environmental Synthesis Center
artists» res
artists» residency.
Charting a wide range of ways that contemporary
artists from Africa are responding to
environmental conditions and their own situations to make art, Environment and Object
includes sculpture, photography, painting, and video by well - known
artists from Africa and contemporary African
artists living abroad.
A select group of
artists have contributed works to this group show exploring the «history of activism, intervention, and resistance that has characterized a great deal of African art - making from prehistory to the present,»
including FABRICE MONTEIRO's «The Prophecy,» series of photographs about the
environmental devastation of his native Senegal (above, «Untitled # 1,» 2013).
Longlisted and shortlisted
artists have gone on to achieve success around the globe,
including Jason deCaires Taylor, creator of the first underwater sculpture park in Grenada and recently the
artist behind an
environmental installation on the banks of the River Thames.
Mutu has transformed the gallery into an
environmental installation,
including a monumental wall drawing, which evokes an enchanted forest and allows visitors to immerse themselves in the
artist's work.
Among these new works is an
environmental installation with sound entitled Pinocchio Is On Fire, which examines key moments in the history of the black community in Los Angeles from the early 1980s to the present (with cultural references that
include the rise of HIV and crack cocaine during the 1980s, gangster rap, and mega-churches, along with aspects of the
artist's own biography).
Mutu also transformed the gallery into an
environmental installation,
including a monumental wall drawing, which allowed visitors to immerse themselves in the
artist's work.
Events designed to connect the local and regional community with the
artists in residence may
include an open studio of works in progress, outreaches by residents, and on - site activities / tours held in partnership with schools and arts and
environmental organizations.
[8] Castelli opened a temporary annex, the Castelli Warehouse, on West 108th Street, with a show organized by Robert Morris, of
environmental sculpture by nine
artists,
including Nauman, Serra, and Eva Hesse.
The first in our series is San Francisco - based
environmental artist Gyongy Laky, who addresses many political themes in her hands - on and labour - intensive work, which
includes the use of natural materials to textiles.
The ensuing discussion, which
included environmental entrepreneur Kresse Wesling, scientist and
artist Sissel Tolaas, and engineer Matthias Schuler, addressed future scenarios in the arts and design worlds in light of the goings - on at COP15.