5 Environmental Artists that Inspire my Work
You may be feeling uninspired lately - I know I certainly am. Or you may be feeling like you have soooo many ideas brewing in your imagination and don’t know how to sort them out during this time.
If either is the case, I have found that exploring other people’s mediums opens new avenues for my wild thoughts to play. Or, in the least, reminds me of the importance of art to the human experience of emotions and community.
Evocation
Shirin Abedinirad
If you are searching for an artist that brings a sense of awe to an already vast landscape then Shirin is the artist to adore. Shirin Abedinirad was born in 1986, in Tabriz, Iran. In 2013, she began creating land art, installation projects, and public art by employing images of nature. She creates art through costume design, performance, installation, painting, and video. This land art installation is set in the central desert of Iran. Shirin’s Evocation represents the relationships between human mind and the fundamental elements in nature such as the wind, and sand among others.
Salmon Song
Lucy Campbell
Full of whimsy and wonder. Lucy Campbell is a painter who lives and works surrounded by the incredible rolling hills of Scotland. She finds her inspiration through the wild of nature and the human internal wild experiences. Her work is often seen as a child embracing the wilderness of animals or nature to express a hopefulness of protection and a bond with our wild lands.
Untitled, Winter (Bed of Roses), 2005
Gregory Crewdson
born in Brooklyn, New York, Gregory’s work embodies the melancholic suburban life while showcasing “a tension between domesticity, nature, and the unknown”. Gregory goes through beautiful efforts to stage his work in a way that represents the fantastical and the realistic.
Petal Drop (02)
The Art Department
Anonymous, collaborative, and large scaled - these artist are showing daily disruptions in poetic forms for the LA community. This team creates FREE, participatory installations in urban sites to connect the community to the beauty that is in the everyday nature connections. Just imagine standing alone in a thin ally way and having thousands of flower petals fall onto your head… that’s the power of The Art Department.
Aguahoja
Neri Oxman
Last but certainly not least…
This designer, scientist, architect, artist stole my heart in 2013 with her beautiful Silk Pavilion. I mean this statement alone manifest why Neri is incredibly important to our environmental community - “Oxman’s goal is to augment the relationship between built, natural, and biological environments by employing design principles inspired and engineered by Nature, and implementing them in the invention of novel design technologies”. I wont say more because you absolutely should explore and watch her episode on Netflix’s Abstract, S2:E2.
Dandelions - The Art Department