Anthrocopene Island, Now and Then

Suzan Anker in Anthrocopene Island at LES Gallery at The Clemente,  curated by Pam Longobardi, through April 25th.
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Anker fashions "miniature worlds within Petri dishes that pile natural and human-made materials into plush 'landscapes' photographed arially and further translated via machine technology into 3-D modeled artifical terrains." Anker investigates how "nature is being altered in the 21st century through her practice and collaborative facility, the SVA Bio Art Laboratory." I love this work, also seen at the Bio Art Lab sponsored symposium on Flowers in October, 2018.

Longobardi's press release observes that, "Climate change is pushing all creatures--human, plant, and mineral--into new geolocations." Here, Maryam Palizgir superimposes the drying Lake Urmia (Iran) with American salt lakes.

Peggye Cyphers' painting process echoes the unceasing transitions of the natural world.

Christy Rupp's credit card beast.

Longobardi's Drifters project, documenting plastic flotsam in new configurations.

In front, Kathleen Vance's charming portable landscapes, described in the press release as 'to go' and speaking to deeper issues of water rights and flows.

Mo Jahangir's dizzying photographs of protests in Iran. 

Cyphers' X-ray-like painting

Craig Dongoski traces energy waves through mark, documenting "microvoltages from  rocks and the ionosphere."

From an earlier time (1970-1, when climate change first surfaced as a major concern but was suppressed), Cleve Gray, invited to the Honolulu Academy of Art, painted his impressions of island landscape. Gallery Link