Mel Chin (b. 1951, Houston, TX) works in Land art, or Earthworks. He has created a vast amount of work in many different mediums. His pieces have many different themes—political, environmental, conceptual, minimalistic, ecological, and… Continue reading
Alison Knowles is an American visual artist known for her soundworks, installation, performances and publications, and as a founding member of Fluxus. In 1967, Knowles produced what is considered to be the first… Continue reading
Medicinal Gardens, 1993 to present Since 1993, Joan Bankemper (b. 1959, USA) has been planting gardens as public artworks. Designing plots in the shape of the human body, she grows medicinal plants and herbs… Continue reading
Bonnie Ora Sherk is a San Francisco based landscape architect, planner, educator, and artist. She is a visionary, dedicated to integrating art and environmental practices. Sherk values community and uses it to try to… Continue reading
Eating in Public, 2003 to present Gaye Chan (b. 1957, Hong Kong) and Nandita Sharma (b. 1964, Canada) are artists, scholars and activists who live and work in Kailua, Hawaii. In 2003 they launched Eating… Continue reading
Edible Estates, 2005 to present Fritz Haeg (b. 1969, USA) is an architect, artist and activist whose expansive project Edible Estates developed out of his belief that “the act of eating is the moment in which we… Continue reading
PIG 05049, 2007 Christien Meindertsma’s (b. 1980, Netherlands) artistic project explores how and where the modern food chain intersects with consumption, commerce, and industry. Working with domesticated farm animals as her point of departure,… Continue reading
Robert Smithson, an artist best known for carving spirals into natural faces, was much more than that. While his Earthworks series is mostly recognizable through pieces like Spiral Jetty in Utah, or the… Continue reading
Agnes Denes was born in 1931 in Budapest, Hungary. In the 1940’s, her family moved to Sweden because of the Nazi occupation. When she was a teenager, she moved to the US where… Continue reading
Michael Rakowitz’s artwork is conceptual, deeply political, and focuses mostly on the Middle East, namely Iraq, which is where his family is from. Through his work, Rakowitz expresses a need and desire to discuss… Continue reading
