Torrance Art Museum, invites you to celebrate Earth Day with them in their latest installment of “Please Don’t Touch the Art”. Compiled by TAM Registrar, Hope Ezcurra.
Ana Mendieta, Imagen de Yagul, 1973
2. Linda Tegg, Grasslands Repair, 2018
3. Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison,The Seventh Lagoon – The Ring of Fire the Ring of Water, 1984
4. Olafur Eliasson, Riverbed, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, 2014-2015
5. Wilfrid Almendra, Between the Tree and Seeing It, à Chelles , 2014
6. Pekka Niittyvirta and Timo Aho, Lines (57° 59′ N, 7° 16’W), 2019
7. El Anatsui, fresh and fading memories’, 2007
8. Anthony James, Birch Cube, 2007
9. Jack Henry,Untitled (ALR Series), 2019
10. Pia Siren, Mountain Landscape, 2011
11. Mark Dion & William Schefferine,Tropical Rain Forest Preserves’, 1989, remade 2003
12. Serge Attukwei Clottey , The Wishing Well, 2021 in Coachella Valley.
13. Doug Aitken, The Garden, 2017
14. Hong Yichen/Guo Yihui/Zheng Yudi, Pure Sewage Ice Making Plant, 2017
15. Pipilotti Rist, 4th Floor to Mildness, 2016
16. Pierre Huyghe , The Roof Garden Commission: at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015
17. Agnes Denes, “Tree Mountain – A Living Time Capsule – 11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years (Triptych),” (1992–96, 2013)
18. Allison Janae Hamilton, Wacissa (still), 2019
19. Mel Chin, Revival Field, 1991
20. Rob Mulholland, Skytower, 2014
21. Banksy, Subject to Availability, 2009
Read:
“A Short History of Environmental Art.” by Susanne Darabas
Green Art Collection, 2014. Environment & Society Portal (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society) http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6806
http://www.environmentandsociety.org/sites/default/files/key_docs/darabas_history_green_art_0.pdf
“A Rough Guide to Environmental Art” by John E. Thornes
School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham,
Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom; email: j.e.thornes@bham.ac.uk
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228268551_A_Rough_Guide_to_Environmental_Art
Watch:
KQED Arts and the Environment collection
KQED Arts collections have been created to help educators find the best arts-focused PBS resources to enrich learning experiences and integrate the arts into classroom curricula of all subjects.
https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/art-and-the-environment/
Additional Resources:
Organizations dedicated to exploring the intersection of arts & climate change
https://artistsandclimatechange.com/organizations/