Eve Andree Laramee is an Ecological artist artist and professor whose interdisciplinary artworks operate at the confluence of art and science.[1][2] She is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Pace University. Laramee was born in Los Angeles, and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY, and Santa Fe, NM. [3] She is also the founder and director of ART/MEDIA for a Nuclear Free Future.
Work
editLaramee's interest in the history and culture of science has resulted in collaborations with physicists, hydrologists, geologists, biogeographers, and ecologists since the 1980s. [4] [5][6] Laramee believes that, "by sharing innovations, art-and-science collaborations can energize action to initiate positive social change and promote awareness of environmental and health issues by directly involving communities, extending ways in which cultures imagine, create and understand." [7][8][9]
Laramee is the founder and current the executive director of ART/MEDIA for a Nuclear Free Future, a social sculpture project orchestrating public art works presented through the mass media in a series of artist-designed billboards, television, radio and print media, and in museum exhibitions, a lecture series and performance art series. Through the extended format of this groundbreaking project, the artwork and ideas of contemporary political, environmental, and social activist artist was made accessible to a large public audience outside of the traditional art audience. Her work on nuclear legacy issues has been featured in the International Uranium Film Festivalof ART/MEDIA [10]. High Performance Magazine (Issue 33): 35–37.a social sculpture project orchestrating public art works presented through the mass media in a series of artist-designed billboards, television, radio and print media, and in museum exhibitions, a lecture series and performance art series. Through the extended format of this groundbreaking project, the artwork and ideas of contemporary political, environmental, and social activist artist was made accessible to a large public audience outside of the traditional art audience.
In her recent creative work, Laramee speculates on how human beings use and misuse the natural environment. [11]Her artwork investigates the environmental and health impacts of atomic legacy sites. Her work tracks the invisible traces left behind by the nuclear weapons complex and its "peaceful" dopplegänger, the Nuclear energy industry, as well as other forms of environmental degradation. This work zeroes-in on sites where Uranium mining/milling, plutonium production for nuclear weaponss and the nuclear energy industry have contaminated surface water, well water and deep aquifer water with radioactive isotopes and her work archives this atomic legacy.
Laramee has spoken about how art allows the visualizing of the invisible, sparks direct action through environmental social-sculpture interventions deployed directly into communities, raises environmental awareness, and activates community participation in remediation efforts. She has written about how awareness of 'spatial history' sharpens our ethics and politics in our behaviors and social interactions. [12]
Exhibitions
editLaramee's art has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. She has participated in exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, Mass MOCA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; among other institutions.
Collections and Fellowships
editLaramee's work is included in the collections of the MacArthur Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, and other public and private collections.
Laramee has received two grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, an Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, two fellowships from the New York Foundation for Arts and grants from the Mid-Atlantic States Arts Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Guggenheim Museum Sculptor-in-Residence Program. International Sculpture Center.[13][14]
References
edit- ^ Lippard, Lucy R.Undermining: A Wild RIde in Words and Images through Land Use in the Changing West, The New Press. 2014 ISBN: 1595586199
- ^ Polli, Andrea (chapter author) editors: Stephen Henry Schneider. Michael Mastrandrea, Terry L. Root. Encyclopaedia of Climate and Weather Vol. 1, Chapter: Cultural Works Addressing Climate and Weather, pg. 321-322
- ^ Miles, Malcolm. New Practices- New Pedagogies: A Reader; Routledge, London, 2005
- ^ Artweek (February 1, 1986). "'Media: Subversion and Manipulation'". Artweek.
- ^ Ball, Phillip. Chemical Aesthetics, UK Royal Society of Chemistry, 2005
- ^ Weintraub, Linda. In the Making: Creative Options for Artists, New York, NY DAP Press 2003
- ^ Hannah, Dehlia. "Performative Experiments: Aesthetic Interventions in the Philosophy of Science" PhD Dissertation, Columbia University, 2012
- ^ Polli, Andrea. Transdiscourse, "Mediated Environments" Springer Verlag 2011
- ^ Shanken, Edward A. art and Electronic Media (Themes and Movements Series), Phaidon Press 2009
- ^ Durland, Steven (1986). "'Subersive Acts: ART/MEDIA offer an alternative to the status quo in New Mexico'"
- ^ Lippard, Lucy. Weather Report: art and Climate Change, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art 2007
- ^ Moyer, Twylene, and Harper, Glenn (2012). The New Earthwork; Art, Action, Agency, Eve Andree Laramee; Revealing What No One Wants to See.". Washington DC: University of Washington Press and the ISC Press. ISBN 029599164X.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "The New Earthworks: Art, Action, Agency." 2011
- ^ Morgan, Catrin. "Phantom Settlements," Ditto Press: Royal College of Art, UK., 2011