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Michel Varisco

29 Saturday Aug 2015

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In honor of the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina ─ among the worst natural disasters in the United States ─ here are stills from New Orleans artist Michel Varisco’s film, Shifting, now traveling with Water, Water Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing Resource, a new-media exhibition. It focusses primarily on an unnatural disaster: the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which began just five years after the hurricane. Both devastations have taken their toll on a complex and delicate environment.

1. VariscoShifting

VariscoShifting 1

The video, which tours with Water, Water, and Varisco’s installation at New Orleans’ Ogden Museum, address the fragile and rapidly changing landscape of the Louisana wetlands, before, during, and after the oil spill. Through a synthesis of science and art, Shifting aims to describe the beauty and destruction of a unique landscape with the intention to create discussion and promote action around conservation, land use and energy issues.

The following short video is a talk Varisco gave at the Ogden in 2012 about her exhibition.

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Michel Varisco is a native New Orleans artist and an artist-mentor at New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. She works in photography, assemblage and site-specific installations exploring change, loss and regeneration. Recent work focuses around the Louisiana Wetlands in a series called “Shifting” and explores the dynamic changes and cycles of loss on the coast of Louisiana from both natural and man-made causes. Varisco’s work has been published and shown internationally, and is included in corporate, private and public collections in the United States and abroad.

James Maxwell

22 Saturday Aug 2015

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Coldman

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James Maxwell is a former theatre critic and cartoonist. Last year, he published 320 short stories in four volumes about a seedy coffee shop catering to the homeless. As he has for the past six years, he spends his mornings writing about compassion.

Elizabeth Bisbing

16 Sunday Aug 2015

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Elizabeth Bisbing was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned her BFA in painting from Moore College of Art & Design and her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Art. She has been a member of the Soho20 Gallery New York City since 2002 and has had five solo shows and participated in several group shows at the gallery. She is also affiliated with the Projects Gallery of Philadelphia where she has been in group shows and one solo exhibition. Projects Gallery brings her work to the Red Dot and Bridge Art Fairs in Miami, New York, and Chicago. She participated in The Veil: Visible & Invisible Spaces, an exhibition, which traveled across the country from 2008 through 2013. Her work has been reviewed in Art-Vetting.com, New York Sun, Distinction Magazine, and New York Magazine as well as the Lincoln County News of Damariscotta, Maine and The Garland News of Dallas, Texas. In April of 2014, her animation “The Metamorphosis” was shown in Half the Sky: Intersections in Social Practice Art Cultural Exchange and Exhibition in Shenyang, China. Her work is in many private collections as well as Rowan University’s Art Gallery permanent collection. She lives and works in New York City.

Peter Michelson

08 Saturday Aug 2015

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Scanned poem

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Peter Michelson lives in Boulder and has for some while. As a young man he worked in an ice plant on the waterfront in Seattle. It provided ice for fishing boats and ice delivery trucks, on which he was occasionally an assistant.

Ray Grasse

01 Saturday Aug 2015

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Water Park (Millennium Park, Chicago.)

Water Park (Millennium Park, Chicago.)

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Ray Grasse is a writer, editor, and photographer living in the Chicagoland area. He is author of The Waking Dream, Signs of the Times, and the forthcoming Under a Sacred Sky. His website is http://www.raygrassephotography.com

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