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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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