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Josh Keyes “MIGRATION”
Josh Keyes is a Portland-based artist producing vivid photo realistic renderings of flora and fauna juxtaposed against a fragmented urban environment. His focus on the unknown effects of climate change and suffering ecosystems is displayed through finely detailed acrylic on board paintings, exhibited at Keyes' first solo exhibition.
Josh Keyes new show, 'Migration' opens next week October 22, 2011 at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York. The show is focused on the results of climate change. Primarily when these changes force native species out of their habitats and shift or merge into another.
"A satirical loko ar the impact urban sprawl has on the environment and surmises, with the aid of scientific slices and core samples, what could happen if we continue to infiltrate and encroach on our rural surroundings." - Environmental Graffiti
Josh Keyes new show, 'Migration' opens next week October 22, 2011 at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York. The show is focused on the results of climate change. Primarily when these changes force native species out of their habitats and shift or merge into another.
"A satirical loko ar the impact urban sprawl has on the environment and surmises, with the aid of scientific slices and core samples, what could happen if we continue to infiltrate and encroach on our rural surroundings." - Environmental Graffiti
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Joel Sternfeld, McLean Virginia (December 1978)
After the Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage, California (1979)
Exhausted Renegade Elephant (1982)
Joel Sternfeld
Joel Sternfeld is an American Photographer, born in 1944, who has changed the way artists present their environmental trepidations, as well as contributing to the environmentalist movement himself.
“If the contamination of paradise has often been Sternfeld's subject, he has likewise tainted the purity of photography in order to capture the condition of America. His shift from spontaneous snapshot to pre-determined picture-making helped open the gates for a new type of photography (and) played a pivotal role in moving the medium forward.” - Reprinted from Luhring Augustine press release, 2004.
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Banksy
Banksy, an english street/graffiti artist specializing in satirical and subversive epigrams. His trademark combinations of dark humor and distinctive stenciling techniques are often the only distinguishing characteristic of much of his work. Banksy focuses on strong political, social, and environmental commentary as shown here in these environmental pieces from his "I don't believe in global warming" series.
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Walton Ford
"Drawing the Apocalypse"
“as much a tutorial in flora and fauna as it is as a scathing indictment of the wrongs committed by nineteenth-century industrialists or, locating the work in the present, contemporary American consumer society”
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Catlin Hackett
"Contemporary Mythology"
"With my drawings I am alluding to the ceaselessly mutating relationship between humans and the natural world, and specifically the way in which we (humans) warp animals and nature to fit our own needs through personification, objectification, and actual physical transformation through specific breeding, farming, hunting, etc. I have always drawn animals, I am obsessed with their textures, their movements, their forms. I am fascinated by the nature of nature; how much of our understanding of the natural world is based upon preconceived notions, myths, and objectifications? All of these overlaid symbols, mystifications, and prejudices are costumes laid over the reality of the animal so that we can better pretend that we’re not animals ourselves. I am fascinated by the way the human body relates to the animal body, and attempt to capture both the physical symmetry and the awkward differences in my work." - Catlin Hackett
"With my drawings I am alluding to the ceaselessly mutating relationship between humans and the natural world, and specifically the way in which we (humans) warp animals and nature to fit our own needs through personification, objectification, and actual physical transformation through specific breeding, farming, hunting, etc. I have always drawn animals, I am obsessed with their textures, their movements, their forms. I am fascinated by the nature of nature; how much of our understanding of the natural world is based upon preconceived notions, myths, and objectifications? All of these overlaid symbols, mystifications, and prejudices are costumes laid over the reality of the animal so that we can better pretend that we’re not animals ourselves. I am fascinated by the way the human body relates to the animal body, and attempt to capture both the physical symmetry and the awkward differences in my work." - Catlin Hackett
