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
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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
Now on view at BWI Airport
If you’re passing through Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport through January 20, 2020, check out the current exhibition in Terminal D, of Baltimore-Washington area artists responding to the legacy of Leonardo da Vinci. It’s located right inside the doors from outside, and to the left of the TSA screening area. These are two of my hand-colored … Read More
Issues in Science and Technology
My photograph is the cover of the current issue of Issues in Science and Technology, the quarterly magazine of the National Academies of Science. There’s also a feature inside with a description and three images from my Walking in Antarctica traveling exhibition. The magazine is published both in print and online at https://issues.org/walking-in-antarctica/. If you’re … Read More
Urban Wilderness Weekend
Charm City Meadworks and the Four Alarm Artists are putting on an Urban Wilderness Weekend to kick off Baltimore Wildlife Week, and some of my photos and sculpture from my 2015 Baltimore Ecosystem Study artist-in-residence project will be on view in a pop-up exhibit May 3-5, 2019. Events scheduled include a Friday night costume dance … Read More
Adobe 99U: Working Remotely from Antarctica to Albania
Screenshot of article online at Adobe 99U website, which is illustrated with some of my photos, including the one shown here. Cover of the print edition of Issue 19 of Adobe 99U, which was available during Winter 2018/2019. I am one of three artists featured in an article in Adobe’s magazine for creatives, 99U. In … Read More
Abstraction at Large, Site: Brooklyn Gallery
Scalloped Sand, Lake Hoare, Antarctica will be on view in this group exhibition of abstract art in different media juried by art critic Eleanor Heartney. Reception: Weds. April 11, 6 to 9 p.m., on view through May 6. Site: Brooklyn Gallery is located at 165 7th Street in Brooklyn. Gallery hours: Thurs.-Sun. 1 to 6 … Read More
BWI Airport Art Exhibition on View
The third in a series of exhibitions at BWI Airport is now on view, and once again, I am one of seven Maryland artists with work on display. Fractal Arch, the photograph from Antarctica’s Erebus Ice Tongue cave shown above, is on view in the D/E Concourse, enlarged to seven by ten feet. It will … Read More
BWI Airport Art Exhibition
The third in a series of exhibitions at BWI Airport is now on view, and once again, I am one of seven Maryland artists with work on display. Fractal Arch, the photograph from Antarctica’s Erebus Ice Tongue cave shown above, will be in the D/E Corridor, enlarged to seven by ten feet. If you’d like … Read More
Walking in Antarctica Interviews & Other News
My Antarctica series was the subject of a detailed article by Cara Giaimo on the international travel, adventure and all-round compendium of offbeat curiosities website Atlas Obscura as part of The Year in Wonder series. Titled “The Artist Shrinking Antarctica’s Glaciers,” it focuses on my process of creating the 3D models of the Antarctic landscape. … Read More