Meg Thomas

White Picket Fence

cinder blocks, stucco, grass clods

8" x 4" x 16" 

Meg Thomas

White Mountain II

eroded plaster burlap, stucco, wire, wood, soil, grass seed

5' x 3' x 3'

Sarah Langsam

Rings on Rings on Rings 

wood, epoxy resin, fiberglass

45" x 45" x 1"

2013

Sarah Langsam

Round & Round

Wood, bark, epoxy resin

55" x 55" x 3"

2013

Sarah Langsam

                    

Reversed Destruction

Tree roots, tree branches, steel

36" x 96" x 60"

2013

My ongoing interest in nature and the world that surrounds us is forever evolving. I constantly find new inspiration in the discovery of intricate details in the environment that most people often pass by or take for granted. The similarities, differences, and relationships that man shares with nature intrigues me. I create art by dissecting natural elements and putting them back together in ways that challenge how the viewer expects to see them.

This piece explores questions of life in both living and deceased states. My connection to this piece is especially strong because I am utilizing debris collected after Hurricane Sandy hit my hometown in northern New Jersey. The opportunity to work with a piece of nature that I have had personal relationship to all my life was extremely exciting. This structure puts a positive spin on an event that affected so many people negatively.

Kristen Tinari

Kristen Tinari

Separation and Cohesion 

Clay, plexiglass and fishing wire

12"x12"x 96"

2013

Kacey Boyce

Wire Forest Instillation 

Kacey Boyce

Wire Forest Instillation 

12 gage black solid wire, green duck tape 

2013

10'X15'X2"

Kacey Boyce

Forest Seat

Kacey Boyce

Forest Seat

Solid steel rods, recycled glass

2013

6'X4'5"X3'

Kacey Boyce

Tree Inspired Wall Hanging                 

4'X4'5"X3"

9"X5"X1/2"

1'2"X4"X4"

8"X3"X2.5"

1'X4.5"X3.5"

1'2.5"X5"X4"

Kacey Boyce

Tree Inspired Wall Hanging

Pine Wood, Acrylic Paint

2013

Danielle Race

Danielle Race

Triangle Line

2013

Fired ceramics, paint

8' line

Rachel Pearlman

 Saturated Adhesion

Clay, glass, glaze, sand and tulle

2013

Size varies with every piece

     For this project I really wanted to try a different way of working with clay and glaze.  I decided to pour puddles of both slip (liquid clay) and glaze and allow them to dry.  Once they were completely dry, I layered the clay, glass beads and glaze all together on top of sand and fired it just like that.  I am really influenced by the textures of earth and space and in this project I am using these materials to make abstract things hint at certain natural conditions.  

Jessica Anton

Jessica Anton

Distorted Memories

Aluminum, Steel, Plastic

2013

6'' x 15'' x 14''

Andrew Jacob

Andrew Jacob

Alone in Introspection

Steel and Cement

2013

12 x 8

In a state of meditation, a person has the ability to concentrate on specific senses in order to improve awareness of their surroundings. If you limited how much you could see and hear, you would then be able to deliberately concentrate on those limitations.

Alone in Introspection revolves around this idea and invites an individual to the center to experience this sensation. The dome resembles a closed space where the individual’s mind can be alone and the pipes are extensions of the mind reaching out into the surroundings.

 

Carina Gomez

Carina Gomez

Grace

Steel

5' x 5' x 5'

I think of my sculpture as an object deeply grounded in human nature and the cycle of life. The shape of a pentagon has always been regarded as a mystical and mythological number making many references to nature. Think about how just the number 5 relates to one’s body. It is also related to the five stages of life; birth, adolescence, coitus, parenthood, and death. The continuous lines of these interconnected pentagons are used to evoke the making of the world and it’s many continuous cycles. Placed in an outdoor setting this sculpture is also shown returning to the nature it was created from.

Jessica Anton

Jessica Anton

Needed Retaliation

plastic and aluminum

2013

15'' x 13'' x 6''

As a society we try to dissociate ourselves from nature. We tear it down, put up walls, and trim it to tailored skeletons of something that used to be wild. At times the closest we have to a forest is a single tree in our backyard. We forget so easily all the benefits received from nature.

With this piece I wanted to make the viewer see what they’re missing out on in nature. This is not a bug you can dismiss with the bottom of your shoe. We shouldn’t need something to hit us back in order for us to know what we’re doing is wrong. A bug this size is not to be ignored, a lot like the devastation already done to our planet. We all need to start seeing the value of nature and maybe it will become easier to see the importance of preserving the environment.