ARTISTIC VOICE: Beauty & Fragility in the World
PAPER +Leaves VI: Enmeshed, included in the Anything Goes! exhibit
Throughout my career, I have been compelled to examine social and environmental concerns through my art, and in doing so to prompt my audience to examine and consider these issues. I frequently turn my lens on sustainability and environmental degradation. Using paper as a reference point and dried leaves as a signifier for the natural world, I juxtaposed them with single use plastic, mesh fruit bags, ties, and other industrial plastic materials. Paper +Leaves VI: Enmeshed , though deceptively “beautiful,” aims to preserve the tension between recyclable and non-biodegradable materials coexisting and degrading at different rates in the landscape. As long as plastic pollution continues as a force antithetical to nature, it is important to underscore its pervasiveness and intrusiveness.
I am pleased to have been invited to participate in the upcoming exhibition, Anything Goes!, at the venerable California Heritage Museum in Santa Monica, where I will be exhibiting the above work. The exhibit runs from September 9 - 30, 2023.
The show was conceived and curated by MRG Fine Art, artists' and collectors' services committed to promoting a select group of artists and, as well, providing brokerage and advisory services to collectors. Michael Goodman, principal of MRG, is bringing his expertise and knowledge of the art world to the California Heritage Museum for the benefit of this important local cultural institution.
You can find a selection of some of my major large-scale works managed by MRG Fine Art on Artsy.
New Print Releases
Please check out new print releases in the Art section showing several series dealing with climate and the passage of time as structural principles resulting in series of unique prints from a common printed matrix.
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