Tag Archives: Environmental Works

Lynne Hull, Creating Tran-species Art and Sculpture for Wildlife

Environmental Artist and Sculpture:
I discovered Lynne’s work while doing some searching on Nature and Art recently. Her work is very in tune with working with the natural environment. Her work truly integrats with nature and the biological and animal interaction with it is intended.  A link to her website is at the bottom of this [...]

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Robert Smithson

 Robert Smithson
Essay:
Cultural Confinement by Robert Smithson

 

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition , rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. Some artists imagine they’ve got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold [...]

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John Dahlsen environmental Artist

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“Creating a Sense of Oneness” by Louise Buyo and Jim Hall

In the mid-nineties, Dahlsen was gathering driftwood on the Victorian Coastline for a furniture project when he found huge amounts of plastic litter washed up along the shore. The artist accumulated 80 bags of the garbage and dragged them to his studio to begin his [...]

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Rachel Rosenthal

Rachel Rosenthal by Annie Leibowitz
Rachel Rosenthal is the grande dame of the West Coast performance art scene.  She is best known for her solo performances and her DbD (“Do by Doing”) training technique.  Her span of her work stretches from early training with Hans Hoffmann, Merce Cunningham, Erwin Piscator, and Jean-Louis Barrault to the continuing output [...]

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The Ann Hamilton experience – installation artist – Interview

Ann Hamilton: Interactive, Intermedia, Installation artist. While watching the PBS special “Art in the 21st Century”  2002, the second episode has a huge interview with Ann. I would suggest checking out the whole series. The  following interview was done prior to the series and is very good as well. Her work has given me a revived [...]

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Ana Mendieta

Untitled (Grass on Woman), 1972

Film still: Untitled (Blood and Feathers #2), 1974
Text and images linked from http://hirshhorn.si.edu/visit/in_depth.asp?key=33&subkey=57:
Ana Mendieta (American, born Cuba 1948–1985) is an artist whose career can be distinguished in part by her experimentation with a diverse range of artistic media. As a student at the University of Iowa in Hans Breder’s intermedia program, Mendieta [...]

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Swoon

Swoon (Caledonia Curry) makes life-sized paper cutout and wheatpaste  murals that she installs in urban environments.  She is also known for her floating cities.  One such project, the Swimming Cities of Serenissima, crashed the Venice Biannale in 2009.
Upper image linked from http://www.swimmingcities.org/the-rafts/
Lower image linked from jacknifestyle.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/swoon/

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Sarah Oppenheimer

Sarah Oppenheimer is an artist with a background in painting and printmaking (for which she was appointed critic from the Yale faculty), but currently works primarily with architecture. She creates intricate “sculptures,” for lack of a better word, through buildings so that you have a view out of the building (many times through multiple stories), [...]

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Liz McGowan

British sculptor Liz McGowan is one of an increasing number of artists making ephemeral and durable works that resonate profoundly with the natural world.   Especially noteworthy is her Norfolk Songline, which fused sculpture and walking practice.
 http://www.lizmcgowan.com
Image linked from  http://www.lizmcgowan.com

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