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Visual Arts

In a startling variety of ways, contemporary artists are exploring the relationship that our species has to its planet. We have aggregated some of this very intriguing work below. If you have suggestions for works to add to the gallery, please contact us.

Works can also be viewed in portfolio view.

2014-15 Curator: Julia Olson

November 19, 2014/in Visual Arts /by Julia Olson

London-based Julia Fullerton-Batten is a world-wide acclaimed and exhibited fine art photographer. Her work is best known for creative settings and highly cinematic lighting. This small collection of personal work, however, veers a bit from her signature style. The artist built hauntingly beautiful double exposure portraits by layering people together with various landscapes. (source).

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November 19, 2014/in Visual Arts /by Julia Olson

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Andy Goldsworthy is an extraordinary, innovative British artist whose collaborations with nature produce uniquely personal and intense artworks. Using a seemingly endless range of natural materials—snow, ice, leaves, bark, rock, clay, stones, feathers petals, twigs—he creates outdoor sculpture that manifests, however fleeting, a sympathetic contact with the natural world. Before they disappear, or as they disappear, Goldsworthy, records his work in superb colour photographs. (source).

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October 18, 2014/in Visual Arts /by Ken Hiltner (UC Santa Barbara)

Netherlands-based artist Diederik Storms draws upon the mysteries of nature to create his captivating collection of organic sculptures. He uses raw substances, like stones and petrified wood, combined with plexiglass to create a visually exciting juxtaposition of materials. He says, “Nature, more than anything else, confronts me with the question of what is invisibly present behind all that is alive” (source).

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October 17, 2014/in Visual Arts /by Ken Hiltner (UC Santa Barbara)

Working in the tradition of land art, artist Gerry Barry utilizes organic media to create epic installations on poetic landscapes across the Irish countryside. Barry’s installations often feature circular or crescent shapes, and they enhance the terrains upon which they are built. Using rocks, water, sand and landscaping, he creates ephemeral artworks that can last a day or a decade (source).

October 15, 2014/in Visual Arts /by Ken Hiltner (UC Santa Barbara)

A New York-based artist, Alexandra Pacula’s collection Luminous Heights features rare and stunning cityscape paintings of New York City, with a bit of a twist. The artist beautifully blurs city lights from buildings, street lamps, taxi cabs, and bridges to create an abstract portrayal of the urban environment from various perspectives. (source).