Kangerlussuaq sign in front of the former Danish Hotel in 1959 (left) and at its current location at the airport in 2018 when I was last there (right). Photo on left by J.E. Saaby-Hansen, Collection of Danish Arctic Institute. In the summer of 2018 I went on an educational tour of the Canadian Arctic and … Read More
Author: Helen1um
Chasing Waterfalls in Brooklyn
I Am Water Billboard Exhibition One of my photos is now installed in the “I Am Water” outdoor billboard exhibition in the East Williamsburg-Bushwick neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Given the subject matter, it seems almost too literal that it’s at the intersection of Forrest Street and Flushing Avenue (134 Forrest St. to be exact). The photograph shows a … Read More
Article in Yale Climate Connections
Science and conservation journalist Kristen Pope interviewed me for her recent article Artists chronicle climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic, in Yale Climate Connections. Read it here. Pope also discusses the Antarctic Artists and Writers Collective, of which I am a founding member and talked with the curator of our online exhibition Adequate Earth: Artists and Writers in … Read More
Adequate Earth: Artists and Writers in Antarctica • Jan. 28-May 22, 2021
On January 28, 2021, the Antarctic Artists and Writers Collective launches its first online exhibition, Adequate Earth: Artists and Writers in Antarctica, which features works by 13 former participants of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program (AAWP). The exhibition runs through May 22, 2021, and will be accompanied by a series of … Read More
Announcing the Antarctic Artists & Writers Collective
One major bright spot during the pandemic of 2020 has been working with a dynamic group of artists, musicians, and writers to launch a new organization: the Antarctic Artists and Writers Collective. The process began on Labor Day Weekend, September 2019, when 13 past participants of the National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, … Read More
May we have A Show of Hands?
This is one of the 50 photographs in the online exhibition A Show of Hands on the website of the photography magazine Don’t Take Pictures, on view now through February 23, 2021. I photographed this exhibit in the Kangerlussuaq Museum on my trip to Greenland in 2018. Here’s a handy (ahem) direct link to the … Read More
Out of Order Fundraiser for Maryland Art Place: July 16-23, 2020
Bidding on Marble Steps, Harlem Park (shown above) opens at 10 a.m., Thursday, July 16, in the annual Out of Order auction for Maryland Art Place (MAP). Marble steps are an iconic image of Baltimore. In the photograph above, a Paulownia tree has aggressively asserted itself with sufficient force to lift chunks of marble and … Read More
Tree Talk: Thursday, July 30, 1 pm ET
I am among five artists participating in this ZOOM presentation and will be presenting works from my ongoing photographic series of the Asian fig trees that are widely planted along neighborhood streets in Los Angeles and other cities on California’s Central Coast. The one I call Big Bird (archival pigment print, 36 x 31 inches) … Read More
Antarctica Archive at Center for Art + Environment
Update, August 5, 2020: Installed in January 2020 and extended through January 3, 2021, is a display from my Antarctica archive at the Nevada Museum of Art’s Center for Art + Environment in Reno. The museum reopened in June after being closed due to COVID-19 restrictions, but it is advisable to check with them in … Read More
Antarctic Scans Help Create a Frozen Planet
Some of my 3D scans of Antarctic icebergs and glaciers, including the very same Canada Glacier scan that I made into the sculpture that the Nevada Art Museum bought, were incorporated into scenes that take place on an icy planet in The Beacon, a science fiction short film (screenshot above). Los Angeles filmmaker Chris Staehler found them through … Read More