LandWorks Exhibition 1969 > 2019 by LBIF

LONG BEACH ISLAND FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES LANDWORKS 1969 & 2019: FIFTY YEARS AT THE LBIF LandWorks 1

Thanks for putting art in the heart of the community Bank of America recognizes the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences for its success in bringing the arts to performers and audiences throughout the community. We commend you on creating an opportunity for all to enjoy and share a cultural experience. Visit us at bankofamerica.com/newjersey.

ÂŠ2019 Bank of America Corporation | AR64WX5V | ENT-211-AD

LandWorks Welcome The LandWorks Exhibition Friday, June 28 – Sunday, July 14 In addition to the exhibition, we are grateful for the talks that will be given by leading scholars who will create the context and connection between the early Earthworks artists and the contemporary artists who are addressing present-day concerns.

Guest Speakers

Tom Moran Chief Curator, Grounds for Sculpture –Tuesday, July 2 at 5:00pm Nora Lawrence Senior Curator, Storm King Art Center – Saturday, July 6 at 5:00pm Ken Smith Principal Architect, Ken Smith Workshop, Friday, July 12 at 5:00pm (followed by Artist Reception)

About the exhibition In the spring and summer of 1969,

Phillips M. Simkin, who taught painting classes at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, curated an exhibition at the LBIF. He invited a stellar group of artists who were at the forefront of what became known as the Earthworks movement. These artists wanted to challenge traditional art mediums and conventions. Many of these Earthworks artists were in the early stages of their illustrious artistic careers at the time that the exhibit at the LBIF was taking place. That exhibit included the following artists: Robert Smithson, Bill Bollinger, Sol LeWitt, Christo, Richard Serra, Rafael Ferrer, Dennis Oppenheim, Hamish Fulton, Philip Glass, Michael Heizer, Peter Hutchinson, Will Insley, Robert Morris, Reiner Ruthenbeck, and Keith Sonnier. The 1969 exhibition of Earthworks, photographs of the installations, and handwritten letters from the artists to the curator were documented in a limited edition catalog box of loose-leaf pages titled LETTERS. A few of these boxes still exist in private collections and museum libraries. This ground-breaking 1969 exhibition and handwritten correspondences were the inspiration for the LBIF to celebrate, fifty years later, the 2019 LandWorks Exhibition. For this show, we have invited an impressive group of contemporary artists whose work builds upon the foundations conceptualized by the Earth Artists.

Fifty year later, this exhibit connects the significance of these early artists to current themes that continue to influence contemporary art and the relationship to site-specific installation art, environmental subject-matter, experimental mediums, and urban landscapes. Many of these artists place environmentalism at the forefront of their practice, each with unique involvements and interesting ways of addressing these concerns to draw the attention of the viewer, as well as to invite political discourse and activism. The exhibition is in our gallery and on our grounds. The LandWorks and WaterWorks Exhibitions are some of LBIF’s most ambitious art exhibitions to date. I wish to acknowledge and thank the many people whose extensive work and research made this exhibition possible, and in particular: Lydia Owens, Chair of LandWorks, Guna Mundheim and Gail Sidewater, Co-Chairs of WaterWorks. Sybil Kleinfeld, Carol Nussbaum, Rebecca Phillips, and Bernadette Fitzgerald. Special thank you to Tracey Cameron, who designed this beautiful catalog and Bank of America for their support as Presenting Sponsor. Thank you to Jim Rodgers for donating the use of his bucket truck for Ken Smith’s installation. Daniella Kerner

Executive Director and Co-Chair of Arts & Exhibitions, LBIF LandWorks 1

LandWorks 1 Jane Barthès After graduating in 1994 from Wimbledon School of Art at the University of London, she left the UK to spend a decade living and working in the South of France. She established herself as an abstract artist in London and France while also teaching life drawing and designing sets for the theater. In 2005, curiosity lead her to travel to New Mexico, US. Barthès lives in Chicago.

2 Cristopher Cichocki is an American artist who lives and works in the desert of Southern California’s Coachella Valley. His work has been featured in numerous exhibitions around the world in such institutions as the Museum of Image and Sound, São Paulo, Bienalle Urbana, Venice, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Museum of Moving Image, New York, Portland Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Palm Springs Art Museum. 3 Nicole Dextras is an award-winning Canadian environmental artist working in a multitude of media, having created art installations all over the world. Living in the temporal rain forest of Vancouver she has often traveled to cold regions to create outdoor ice installations. Throughout the years, she has observed how rising winter temperatures affects her work. 4 Alejandro Durán Born in Mexico City, Durán is a multimedia artist now based in Brooklyn, New York. Through photography, installation, and video, his work examines the fraught intersections of man and nature, particularly revealing the pervasive impact of consumer culture on the natural world. He has been featured in National Geographic, Time, ABC News, The New York Daily News, and Wired. 2 LandWorks

5 Sunil Garg is a New Jersey-based experimental light artist, making indoor and outdoor immersive 2D and 3D work. His large-scale, site-specific public art installations have been exhibited in Chelsea, Bushwick, Newark, Key West, Madison, WI, Summit, NJ, and Philadelphia. A mini-documentary on his work was selected for the New Filmmakers’ Festival. 6 Thomas Jackson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in Rhode Island. After earning a B.A. in History from the College of Wooster, he spent much of his career in New York as an editor and book reviewer for magazines. It was his particular interest in photography books that led him to pick up a camera, first shooting street scenes, then landscapes, and finally the installation work he does today. He lives in San Francisco. 7 Paradise Boys are an international artist duo, Lily Reeves of the U.S. and Krista Davis of Canada, who seek out wildness in spaces in search of freedom from divisive political strategies, restrictive societal structures and imposed cultural norms. They want to be debunked, de-essentialized, and decentered as they place their bodies into lands that lend themselves to this world. 8 Darren Pearson is an artist based in Los Padres National Forest in Southern California. He uses a photography technique called light painting, where he freehand illustrates with a light pointing towards the lens during long exposure photographs. Pearson is the founder of a Southern California-based company specializing in light painting media and products called DARIUSTWIN.

Artists 9 Lily Reeves earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Alfred University and her Masters of Fine Arts at Arizona State University in Phoenix, AZ. Reeves’ public work is in the collections of The University of Montevallo, Alfred University, Franconia Sculpture Park, the Atlanta Beltline, and Salem Art Works, as well as private collections around the world. Reeves currently lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama. 10 Javier Riera is an artist focused in geometric light interventions on nature. His work has been exhibited in the most relevant contemporary museums in his country of Spain: the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina So a, the Niemeyer Center, MUSAC in León, the CAB deBurgos or the CGAC of Santiago de Compostela, among others. 11 David Rubin is the Founding Principal of DAVID RUBIN Land_ Collective and recipient of the 2011-2012 Rome Prize in Landscape Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. His visionary contribution to the field in “empathy-driven design” is a hallmark of his studio, earning increasing renown for fusing issues of social justice in cities with excellence in the design of public spaces. 12 Paula Scher is one of the most influential graphic designers in the world. Scher has been a partner in the New York office of Pentagram since 1991. Scher’s work straddles the line between pop culture and fine art. She is a frequent design contributor to The New York Times, GQ and other publications and is featured in “Abstract: The Art of Design,” the Netflix documentary series about leading figures in design and architecture.

13 Martha Schwartz is a landscape architect and artist with major interests in cities, communities, and the urban landscape. She is the founding principal of Martha Schwartz Partners, a landscape architecture firm with offices in New York, London, and Shanghai. The work of Martha Schwartz Partners embraces the symmetry of art balanced with function, creating encounters that offer direct and ongoing confrontations with art for people. 14 Ken Smith is one of the bestknown of a generation of landscape architects equally at home in the worlds of art, architecture, and urbanism. Trained in both design and the fine arts, he explores the relationship between art, contemporary culture, and landscape. His practice, Ken Smith Workshop is based in New York City. 15 Letha Wilson is known for combining photography with industrial materials like concrete and steel. Born in Hawaii, she lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University, and a MFA from Hunter College. Wilson has exhibited at MASS MoCA, DeCordova Sculpture Park & Museum, International Center for Photography, Essl Museum (Vienna). 16 Reuben Wu is a visual artist and music producer. Coming from a background in design, he co-founded the band Ladytron, as well as writing and producing music for Christina Aguilera and remixing others such as Nine Inch Nails and Blondie. The extensive touring introduced him to photography. Reuben’s work has been published by National Geographic, Colossal, Wired, and The Smithsonian.

LandWorks 3

1 Urban Space Revisited 2019 Charcoal, acrylic

2 Root Cycle 2016 Aloe vera, branches, potting soil with water-based pigments

4 LandWorks

Jane Barthès

Jane Barthès’ work is grounded in an intuitive, meditative process. Jane’s art is an exploration of the matter and energy that make up form; defining that energy, through shapes and patterns. Her hope is that she creates a sense of clarity in the chaos, to give shape and purpose to what the eye does not see. Jane remains obstinate in the belief that if she just digs deep enough, the negative space of a canvas might reveal the secrets of the life force itself.

Cristopher Cichocki Cristopher Cichocki encapsulates the cycle of decay and renewal through an examination between humankind, the natural world, and industrial production. Extending upon the historical trajectory of Land Art, Cichocki underlines the increasingly toxic global environment confronting our planet in the new millennium. Situated on the fringe of art and natural science, the artist’s environmental interventions reflect on the timeline spanning from pre-historic oceans to present-day transmutations.

3 Bouquet 2014 Frozen garments in Banff, Alberta

4 Derrame (Spill) 2010 Found objects, photography

Nicole Dextras

Nicole Dextras is drawn to ice because, to her, it is a poetic metaphor for the ephemeral, all biological environments, and it counter-balances our prevalent dominance over nature. Her outdoor installations fall into two primary bodies of work, one with clothing and the second with words. Her use of frozen garments attempts to symbolically implement ourselves into the ecology of our planet, and the creation of melting text endeavors to disrupt the filtered narrative of today’s media headlines.

Alejandro Durán Alejandro Durán Over the course of his project titled Washed Up, Durán has identified plastic waste from fifty-eight nations and territories on six continents that have washed ashore along the coast of Sian Ka’an, Mexico’s largest federally protected reserve and an UNESCO World Heritage site. He uses this international debris to create color-based, site-specific sculptures that conflate the hand of man and nature. More than creating a surreal or fantastical landscape, these installations mirror the reality of our current environmental predicament.

LandWorks 5

5 Change 1 2017 Light sculpture

6 Cups no. 3, California 2014 Installation, photography

6 LandWorks

Sunil Garg

Sunil Garg’s work explores and dissects manufactured and natural light. He uses gestural forms and masks with programmable digital light technology to create immersive light environments, light paintings, and light sculpture (both in and outdoors). The work incorporates slowly varying colors and intensities influenced by the ritual, innocence, and simplicity of folk art and tradition, updated with technology.

Thomas Jackson

Thomas Jackson The hovering installations featured in his ongoing series of photographs are inspired by self-organizing, “emergent” systems in nature. The images attempt to tap the mixture of fear and fascination that those phenomena tend to evoke, while creating an uneasy interplay between the natural and the manufactured. At the same time, each image is an experiment in juxtaposition. By constructing the installations from unexpected materials and placing them where they seem least to belong, Thomas Jackson aims to tweak the margins of our visual vocabulary.

7 Last Dance 2018 Video

8 Rainbow Brontosaurus 2016 Light painting, photography

Paradise Boys Paradise Boys Intersecting politics and aesthetic, and a set of complimentary technical skills, Davis and Reeves form the Paradise Boys, creating video-sculptures that act as portals to what was, what could be, and what is yet undiscovered. In the eco-love performance titled Last Dance, two disco others visit Grande Staircase-Escalente, a protected land monument in southern Utah set to be considerably downsized by the Trump Administration, to have a last dance before the metaphorical lights go on and the magic of this wild space is gone.

Darren Pearson

Darren Pearson began his journey by creating light illustrations of skeletons, dinosaurs and otherworldly creatures, but slowly transitioned into bringing movement to his light creations with a stop motion process. Lately, he has been collaborating with his wife, Jordan Pearson, on a series of light painting stop motion videos by adding a human element to his work. These stop motion scenes contain anywhere between 24 and 400 photographs, all straight out of the camera. His light painting creations have been seen in a variety of mediums such as commercials, music videos, and art shows. LandWorks 7

9 Sky Circle 2019 Sculpture, Photography

10 FLP 1 2015 Light projection, Photography

8 LandWorks

Lily Reeves

Lily Reeves Growing up in the Southeastern United States has forever contoured her practice with notions of magical realism, with roots in the uncanny and the supernatural. Using light and space as her medium, she centers viewers. Her sculptural work encourages emotional well-being in her audience by employing tactics such as light, built environments, and performance. Through research and systems of belief, she works to invoke psychic and physical healing which addresses individual, collective, and environmental trauma, and challenges the disenchantment and monotony of the everyday.

Javier Riera

Javier Riera bases his work on geometric light projections, projected directly onto the landscape. He uses photography as a means of registration. His work is based on an experience of intervention on â&#x20AC;&#x153;the space and time of landscapeâ&#x20AC;?. The relationship between geometry and nature thus acquires a meditative character, appealing to the co-existence of the public with the modification of the landscape. Riera understands geometry as a natural language, so he is able to establish with it a kind of subtle and revealing resonance.

11 The Power of Water 2014 Indiana Limestone

12 Demographics & Economy 2015 Painting

David Rubin

David Rubin is pleased to include images from Land_ Collective’s Eskenazi Health Hospital project: The Power of Water. As part of that construct, two program elements were envisioned - the design of two fountains that would embrace the site: Healing Waters, and The Falls. Inspired by the Bethesda Fountain in New York’s Central Park, the Healing Waters reflects upon the biblical verse, “Whosoever steps in to the troubling of the water shall be healed of all of their afflictions.” The Healing Waters fountain is an accessible fountain for those that are ambulatory or moving with assistance.

Paula Scher

Paula Scher For the past twenty years, renowned graphic designer and fine artist Paula Scher has been reinterpreting society’s approach to data and our visual representation of the trafficked environment. Through her large-scale cartographic paintings, she has created a novel way of mapping traditional information, while subjectively twisting and confounding it. Intricate, colorful and obsessively detailed, her paintings have the foundations of accuracy, but are ultimately impressionistic visions of our interconnected world. LandWorks 9

13 Longfor Center Plaza 2018

14 BAM Arts Plaza 2014

10 LandWorks

Martha Schwartz Martha Schwartz embraces the symmetry of art balanced with function. Landscape, therefore, becomes a singular language, further enabling social interaction and discourse among those who experience it. From the banks of the Fuxi River, to the visually rich and water-centric Persian carpet that grounds Abu Dhabiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sowwah Square, the landscapes of Martha Schwartz brings forth the underlying message of connection to each siteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s memories, cultural context and, ultimately, to the cultural setting and land itself.

Ken Smith

Ken Smith approaches landscape architecture as an art form that addresses contemporary urbanism, social and environmental conditions. Over the course of his career he has taken on a wide variety of project scales and program types, ranging from temporary installations and gardens to larger scale public spaces. Increasingly, his work involves artistic practice integrated with urban infrastructure, ecological systems, and social access.

15 Headlands Beach Steel Pipe Bend 2018 Photo on steel

16 Lux Noctis 2018 Photography

Letha Wilson

Letha Wilson uses the ability of a photograph to transport the viewer is both called upon, and questioned; sculptural interventions attempt to compensate for the photographâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to encompass the physical site it represents. Landscape photography as a genre is approached with equal parts reverence and skepticism. These pieces call to share in a view of our surrounding natural environments; specific moments chosen from the natural world held in a tenuous balance alongside our constructed everyday.

Reuben Wu

Reuben Wu has felt overwhelmed by beautiful images of the familiar landscape. In his work, he imagines these scenes transformed into undiscovered terrain. Lux Noctis is a series of photographs and videos depicting landscapes unbound by time and space. In this modern age, Reuben Wuâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s aim is to show familiar places in an unfamiliar light, using high-powered aerial LED lights strapped to drones. With this method, he is able to illuminate a remote landscape as adeptly as one would light a portrait in a studio. LandWorks 11

LandWorks Friday, June 28—Sunday, July 14, 2019 Open daily 9am—4pm Artist Reception Friday, July 12, 6—8pm. Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts + Sciences Loveladies, NJ

Photo: Greg Molyneux 12 LandWorks

WaterWorks LandWorks 13

Friday, July 26—Sunday, August 11, 2019 Open daily 9am—4pm Artist Reception Saturday, July 27 at 5—7pm Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts + Sciences Loveladies, NJ

Photo: Greg Molyneux

11 WaterWorks

13 White Shell 2019 Acrylic, Wood

14 Ceto 2016 Photography

Joe Sweeney Joe Sweeney has used landscape painting as a metaphor for his own search for a sense of balance. Some of the themes he explores in his work have to do with man’s relationship with nature, the effects that man has on the environment, and expressing the character and essence of “place”. He spends hours looking, thinking and selecting a location for the work. The foundation of most of his work is small “Plein air” paintings that will often find their way onto larger canvases.

Rachael Talibart

Rachael Talibart grew up on England’s south coast in a yachting family and this close connection with the ocean informs her work. For Rachael, the coast is a potent location; it isn’t the end of the land, it is the beginning of imagination and possibility. In her work, she expresses the many moods the ocean provokes, from serenity to exhilaration. As a child, during long sea crossings, she watched the waves and became fascinated with how they moved and the almost sculptural shapes they made.

WaterWorks 10

Rebecca Rutstein

Rebecca Rutstein’s work expands upon her long and deeply held interests in geology, microbiology, marine science, and the undercurrents that continually shape and reshape our world. She creates R/V Falkor & R/V layered networks where scale Atlantis series is shifted and obscured, artic2016 - 2018 ulating fractal patterns found Acrylic on canvas in nature. Incorporating data and maps, juxtapositions often coexist in her paintings and installations: micro and macro, expressive and restrained, graphic and atmospheric, organic and geometric, handmade and mechanized, linear and solid.

12 Oil Spill 1 2012 Polyester film, vinyl, paper

Manju Schandler Manju Schandler is a visual storyteller creating narrative imagery imbued with elastic meaning. Her mixed media artworks are a meditation on current events presented as a psychological landscape that build upon established storylines in pursuit of ordering madness. Her work is often focused on humankind’s pursuit of fuel. These pieces are part of an exploration of the ocean as our planet’s life blood: marine plants provide the greatest source of the earth’s oxygen. While the oceans are generous they are not infinite.

9 WaterWorks

9 Ocean Swell Photography

10 La Maelstrom 2019 Resin, Metal, 3D Print

WaterWorks 8

Chris Pfeil

Chris Pfeil The camera is the way Chris Pfeil communicates â&#x20AC;&#x153;everything he seesâ&#x20AC;?. His personal landscape is determined by his moments of life, new landscapes, landscapes he has revisited, and landscapes he hopes to capture. He devotes time behind the lens primarily due to his own self driven curiosity. Chris finds peace in the patterns of nature and recognizes the subtle and artful changes within a natural landscape. He is happy to be witness to something much bigger than himself.

Phil Renato

Phillip Renato My brother and I would race to a small peninsula across the bay, at the mouth of the canal, and escape into what seemed to us a vast wilderness. I was the stronger swimmer, but I was the older brother. The tiny perturbations of the surface, our small wake, seemed somehow amplified whenever we exited the water for the house. The lake was a little deep, but it felt knowable - like something we could control. The house, its people, were chaos. Wet with liquor, the house walled in a maelstrom. We used less light back then, just flickers of living room lights escaping from bay windows across the lake at dusk.

7 Lenticular 2015 Lenticular plastic

8 Once More Unto the Breach 2016 Photography

Stacy Levy

Stacy Levyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s projects show the presence of urban nature clarifying the patterns of natural processes at work on the site. She works with urban streams, rivers, tides, and rainwater. Her work registers the changes in nature over the course of a day, a season or several years. Stacy likes to collaborate directly with natural forces, like the tides. She creates works that allows nature to show its very own patterns to the viewer. She concentrates on making places for people to experience urban nature and to witness the fluctuations of the natural world, to bring a sense of wonder and connectedness.

Greg Molyneux Greg Molyneux Executing landscape and nature photography Greg Molyneux works to share his appreciation of a world less touched by humanity, specifically revealing the underrated natural beauty of New Jersey. He is driven to produce visual evidence to disrupt New Jerseyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s malign reputation of little more than suburban sprawl and highways. He allows a natural response to his surroundings. This intuition dictates the process. He works under a simple mandate to produce a photograph that best highlights the splendor of the place he calls home.

7 WaterWorks

Sydney Drum

Marguerita Hagan La Mer explores life of the ocean from the bioluminescent creatures of the abyss to the exquisite and mighty microscopic beauties in the sunlit zone. These single cells photosynthesize more than half of earthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oxygen sustaining all life as the base of our food chain and ecosystem. Many cells form colonies networking to empower their oxygen prowess and mutual support. The intricate ceramic forms shine light on the wonder as well as the delicate, diverse and mostly unseen, little known life of the sea with which our lives are intrinsically linked.

Beautiful Swimmer, Shield, Blue Crab 2017 Ceramic

Sydney Drumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paintings explore the intersections of painting, digital media, photography, and other sources. These works combine alternating panels of representation and abstraction. Some panels are hand-painted, others use digital technology to explore how this technology has changed the way we view painting. This juxtaposition is intended to engage the viewer in a dialog about these different approaches in contemporary artwork. In her work, these various modalities interact, but without one mode dominating another, and suggest a dialog of constantly shifting visions.

Untitled (SD// P125) 2017 Oil paint, digital media, linen

Marguerita Hagan

WaterWorks 6

3 Faga’alu 2018 Acrylic on canvas

4 The Sculpture Coralarium; Sirru Fen Fushi, Maldives 2018 Stainless Steel, Cement

Diane Burko

Diane Burko is a visual artist whose art focuses on monumental geological phenomena. She has investigated locations on the ground, underwater and in the air from open-door helicopters and planes with cameras, drones and sketch pads. She is currently exploring how coral reef ecosystems provide yet another indicator to the urgent issues of global warming. She views her commitment to witness, record, translate, and communicate scientific information though paintings and photographs as an antidote to climate doubt.

Jason deCaires Taylor Jason deCaires Taylor’s artworks are monumental, compelling and unique artificial reefs, formed of carefully crafted sculptures. His underwater “museums” have been installed in locations all over the world. Each sculpture becomes an integral part of the local eco-system. Made of highly durable marine grade cement, the rough texture encourages coral larvae to attach, while the nooks formed as folds of clothing provide homes for fish and crustaceans. His work represents a new, contemporary frontier of artistic experimentation.

5 WaterWorks

Valda Bailey

Allen Bentley Whether under water or in dance, Allen Bentlyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work explores the intimacy and connection through motion. To him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;water is the perfect metaphor for love: all-encompassing and powerful. In water/ in love, a wave can carry or drown you, but the currents are so irresistible you ignore the concert from your lungs about breathing. In water/in love, there is nothing else: any other voices are silenced in the enveloping quiet. And in that drowning/flying silence, bodies reach for each other - that is the moment I seek.â&#x20AC;?

Held in the Undertow 2014 Oil on canvas

Valda Bailey Unrelenting sunshine and clear blue skies are fine for a day or two, but given the choice Valda Bailey would rather exist in murk and mist and subdued colours. Thankfully, the UK, and more specifically, Scotland, has this in abundance. These are the conditions of subtlety and softness; the gentle rain and the ethereal light that fills the soul and stirs the emotions. The coastal environment intrigues and delights her; how time and tide collide to produce the unforeseen.

Hebridean Shallows 2014 Photography

Allen Bentley

WaterWorks 4

Artists

12 Manju Shandler Manju Shandler began her career in the 1990’s building original masks and puppetry for theatrical productions including The Lion King on Broadway. In 2001 her focus shifted to making visual art that responds to current events through politically charged narratives.

9 Chris Pfeil Graduating with a BFA from Stockton University, Chris Pfeil’s formal education allowed him to learn traditional process, techniques, film printing methods while considering composition, balance and the beginning of honing his own style of photography. Travels through coastal Mexico and remote parts of Central America exploring rural surf towns was the beginning of several themes: surf, landscape, nature and the communities that make up these worlds both on a local and international level.

11 Rebecca Rutstein Artist and ocean explorer, Rebecca Rutstein works at the intersection of art, science and technology. Her collaborations have been funded by the National Science Foundation and National Academies of Science. She has received a Pew Fellowship, Independence Foundation Fellowship and Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding. Rutstein is in the permanent collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

8 Greg Molyneux Near eight years in and photography still strikes Greg Molyneux as a most unlikely passion. From humble beginnings in 2012, participating in a yearlong photo-a-day project, one he was certain he would quit, to where he is today—a craftsman of landscapes. Photography, an art he once berated with open scorn as an ignorant youngster who thought he could draw well enough, has manifested as the creative outlet he never knew he loved.

10 Phil Renato As a third generation metalworker Phillip Renato has spent his career designing and producing one-ofa-kind objects often not in metal, working digitally with binary computers and human fingers. Using contemporary processes and materials, he is a poet of post-products; building up and storing away little plastic phrases molded into things, filling an ever-inflating void and packing it all into ever-new objects. Renato teaches at the Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

13 Joe Sweeney A resident of Ardmore, PA, he has taught at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The University of the Arts, Wayne Art Center, Woodmere Art Museum, and Chester Springs Studio. Primarily a landscape painter his artwork is in many public and private institutions, private collections, and museums. 14 Rachael Talibart is a professional fine art photographer based in the South of England. She is best known for her Sirens portfolio. This portfolio has won numerous awards and has been published globally. Rachael has exhibited in major London galleries, Brighton, Barcelona, New York and Massachusetts and her limited edition prints appear in private collections internationally. 3 WaterWorks

WaterWorks 1 Valda Bailey Currently living in East Sussex in the UK, Valda Bailey grew up on the Island of Jersey. She still retains an affinity for seascapes and coastal views. Her approach to photography is greatly informed by her background in painting and influences come as much from artists as photographers. Valda thinks as a consequence of this, she is drawn towards flat, abstract rendition. She is largely motivated by colour and form and the tension and dynamism that these components can bring to an image.

2 Allen Bentley has explored figures in motion throughout his career. Using the vehicle of bustling dancers and swimming couples made of quick, energetic touches he discusses the dynamic nature of our quest for connection in our lives. Pushing, pulling, flirting, and chasing: these are the moments Bentley explores through a flurry of gestural marks. Bentley lives in Clarksburg, MD and teaches Figure Drawing at Montgomery College in Rockville, MD. 3 Diane Burko Born in Brooklyn, Diane Burko graduated Skidmore College with a B.S. in art history and painting. She earned an MFA in painting from the University of Pennsylvania. Burko was a Professor at Community College of Philadelphia until 2000, also teaching at Princeton University, ASU, and PAFA. In 1974, she founded FOCUS: Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts. In 2011, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the WCA/CAA. She has also traveled to Antarctica as an educator for the non-profit Students on Ice organization.

4 Jason deCaires Taylor is a British sculptor and creator of the world’s first underwater “Sculpture Park”. He is best known for installing site-specific underwater sculptures which develop into artificial coral reefs integrating his skills as a sculptor, marine conservationist, underwater photographer and scuba diving instructor. His permanent site-specific works span several continents and predominately explore submerged and tidal marine environments. 5 Sydney Drum is a painter and digital media artist, who has exhibited extensively in the U.S.A., Canada, the United Kingdom and internationally in the U.K., Japan, and Germany. Her works are included in many museum collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian National Art Museum, Washington, D.C. 6 Marguerita Hagan is a ceramic sculptor based in Philadelphia. She is an advocate for the thriving of all life in mutually sustainable communities and environments. The concept of interdependence plays throughout her sculpture, as well as her teaching and community arts. Hagan has exhibited nationally and internationally throughout her career. 7 Stacy Levy graduated from Yale University with a BA in Art and a minor in forestry. She earned her MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She is a recipient of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Stacy grew up within the Wissahickon Watershed in Philadelphia, at the edge of Fairmount Park, which inspires her work. She lives in central Pennsylvania.

WaterWorks 2

WaterWorks Welcome The WaterWorks Exhibition July 26 – August 11 Artist Reception Saturday, July 27, 5:00 - 7:00pm Documentary Film Screenings Sonic Sea Friday, July 26, 7:30pm Fee: $5

Paris to Pittsburgh Thursday, August 1, 8:00pm Fee: Free

About the exhibition “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” Lao Tsu The WaterWorks exhibition explores the immense impact of water on all life forms, as our most basic component that sustains us, providing pleasure and at times becoming a forceful threat. The exhibit showcases artists whose work deals with contemporary themes about Water in mediums such as paintings, photography, ceramics, mixed media, and digital 3D prints. The artwork shown illustrates the many facets of “water”: the interface of land form (our island) with the ocean, the wetlands, and concepts of everything else that it impacts: organic life in water, the surface images, the ecological implications of water, and the human condition. The intersections of Art and Science are ever present in these works of art and in the research of these artists. Works shown encompass both two and three dimensional work and is on view in our gallery, on our grounds and also shown as video presentations.

Cover art: Diane Burko Detail this page: Sydney Drum Catalog design: Tracey Cameron

“Water is to me, I confess, a phenomenon which continually awakens new feelings of wonder as often as I view it.” Michael Faraday As you view the various aspects of water that inspire these artists, we hope you experience the wonder, magic, mystery and allure that is water, and it ability to bind together all of humanity, nature and this planet. The LandWorks and WaterWorks exhibitions are some of LBIF’s most ambitious art exhibitions to date. I wish to acknowledge and thank the many people whose extensive work and research made this exhibition possible, and in particular: Guna Mundheim and Gail Sidewater, Co- Chairs of WaterWorks. Lydia Owens, Chair of LandWorks, Sybil Kleinfeld, Carol Nussbaum, Rebecca Phillips. Special thanks to Tracey Cameron, who designed this beautiful catalog and Bank of America for their support as Presenting Sponsor. Daniella Kerner Executive Director and Co-Chair of Arts & Exhibitions, LBIF

1 WaterWorks

ÂŠ2019 Bank of America Corporation | AR64WX5V | ENT-211-AD

WaterWorks 25

LONG BEACH ISLAND FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES WATERWORKS 2019