Different Takes on Environmental Art
Our newest Silo118 artist, Cynthia Martin, conveys her personal angst about the vanishing natural world through deconstructed landscapes and skyscapes. Her works emphasize the beauty of our world, and express hope that we can preserve what is left. Each series uses a different visual approach to explore an aspect of the environmental crisis.
Tom Pazderka, another of our Silo118 artists, paints stunning fire clouds on burned reclaimed wood panels using a mixture of ash, oil paint, and charcoal. The Nostalgie series is an exploration of the human fascination with the destructive power of nature. “These are the objects of reverie of fire, that primordial sense of one’s connectedness to something both life-affirming and life destroying.”
In a recent installation in Miami, Argentine conceptual artist Leandro Erlich created a life-size traffic jam with cars made of sand. “Order of Importance” is Erlich’s biggest installation to date and is a reflection on the current environmental crisis. (Images via Instagram: @leandroerlichofficial)
Thomas Dambo is a Danish artist who uses reclaimed and recycled materials to create larger-than-life forest trolls. Another installation called “Future Forest” is made entirely of found plastic. (Click here to watch a documentary about “Future Forest.”) Dambo’s work is driven by his desire to make our precious environment a bit more magical while salvaging materials and reducing waste. (Images via Instagram: @thomasdambo)
