Helen Glazer: Walking in Antarctica
Rosenberg Gallery
This exhibition is the first comprehensive display of Helen Glazer’s photographs and photo-based sculpture of the Antarctic landscape after her 2015 residency as a grantee of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. Informed by scientific insights into the complex interactions of wind and water that shape the landscape, she spent seven weeks exploring the wilderness with her camera. The exhibition takes as its theme a series of “walks”: over frozen lakes, around massive glaciers and over the sea ice, into a magnificent frozen ice cave, up gravel-covered windswept mountains, and through a lively colony of Adélie penguins. Glazer worked out of remote scientific field camps and had access to protected areas. She returned with a rich cache of photographic material of striking ice and geological forms on a wide range of scales, from towering glaciers to small, intricate designs in the lake ice. The painted sculptures were generated from photographs of ice and rock formations via photogrammetry, a 3D scanning technology, and produced as sculpture on 3D printers and CNC routers, the first such sculptural works produced of the Antarctic landscape. Glazer says the art resulting from this project has more than just aesthetic implications: “Antarctica is a place where vitally important research is being conducted about the role of polar ice in regulating the world’s climate. The power of striking images and eyewitness accounts to raise awareness and motivate people to preserve wilderness has long been understood by environmentalists. I am applying my artistic skills and new technologies to that end.” Exhibition funded in part by the Rubys Artist Project Grants, which were conceived and initiated with start-up funding from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation and are a program of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, and from the Puffin Foundation.
Pressure Ridge Beneath the Double Curtain Glacier, Antarctica 2015 archival pigment print 26.5� x 40�
“Bird” Ventifact, Dry Valleys, Antarctica 2016 acrylic on 3D-printed PLA plastic and polymer-modified gypsum 16” x 29.25” x 29.25”
Skua, Lake Hoare, Antarctica 2015 archival pigment print 16.75” x 22”
Helen Glazer Helen Glazer makes photographs and photo-based sculpture based on complex natural forms, informed by an understanding of scientific concepts of growth and form in nature. Two of her Antarctica photos, enlarged to seven by ten feet, are part of series of displays at BWI Marshall Airport through mid 2018. She has also had work from the Antarctica project featured online on Vice Media’s Creators Project, Atlas Obscura, and the Cloud Appreciation Society, where one of her photographs was January 2016 Cloud of the Month. Her previous work has been exhibited widely in the Mid-Atlantic region, including group exhibitions at the Delaware Museum of Art and New York Hall of Science and in a solo exhibition at Nailya Alexander Gallery, New York. Two of her sculptures were displayed at the American Ambassador’s Residence in Lima, Peru, as part of the State Department’s Art-inEmbassies Program. She is a 2013 recipient of an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council and was 2014-15 artist-in-residence for the Baltimore Ecosystem Study. She received funding assistance for “Walking in Antarctica” from the Rubys Artist Project Grants, which were conceived and initiated with start-up funding from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation and are a program of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, and from the Puffin Foundation. Glazer received a B.A. cum laude in art from Yale University and an M.F.A. from the Mount Royal School at Maryland Institute College of Art, with additional studies at Skowhegan School of Art. She lives in Owings Mills, Maryland. This exhibition is a homecoming of sorts—Glazer served as exhibitions director at Goucher College from 1986 to 1998, organizing numerous critically acclaimed exhibitions in the Rosenberg Gallery.
October 18 — December 18 Please note Goucher’s campus will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday November 22-26.
Artist’s reception: Tuesday, November 14, 6-8 p.m.
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The exhibit is free and open to the public. The Rosenberg Gallery program is funded with the assistance of grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the state of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences.
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Cover images: TOP Fractal Arch, Erebus Ice Tongue Cave, Antarctica, 2015, archival pigment print, 26.5” x 40” BOTTOM Canada Glacier from Lake Fryxell, Antarctica, 2016-17, acrylic, oil, and wax on high density urethane, 17.5” x 60” x 15.5”