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Exhibition

Ice Bound

Artists

Artwork

Whale Bay, Antarctica no.1

Zaria Forman

Forman was able to spend four weeks in Antarctica to experience the beauty of the giant ice glaciers but also see rapidly melting edges.

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60 x 90 inches, Soft pastel on paper, 2016

The Gulf War

Daniel Beltrá

Daniel Beltrá took a trip back to the Gulf Coast where they found an oil trail in the water left by Deepwater Horizon still making trails over 10 years later.

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BP Deepwater Horizon wellhead, ten years, 2020

Ice Watch

Olafur Eliasson

After collecting multiple glaciers through out the Greenland Sea, Olafur, with the help of others, moved them to the Place du Panthéon where they melted away symbolizing the time left before the polar ice caps melt away.

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Installation viewed at Place du Panthéon, Paris, 2015

Tree Mountain

Agnes Denes

Denes devised a plan to restore an ecologically damaged area in Finland where she, and many volunteers would plant around 11 thousand trees in a spiral formation.

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A Living Time Capsule-11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years, 1992-96

In the Palm of Our Hands

Madjeen Isaac

To commemorate their last workshop, Isaac recreates their experience in bringing neighboorhoods together to create more eco-friendly agriculture and to achieve what they call "Enviromental Justice."

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Oil on canvas, 24 x 36in, 2020

Arctic Ocean, Greenland No. 2

Zaria Forman

Zaria Forman was invited to join NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne science mission that has been mapping changes with flights going over Antarctica, Greenland and Arctic Canada.

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N66.32140 W37.17977982, 90 x 60 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2019

Man made fire on the "cerrado"

Daniel Beltrá

With more land need to raise cattle, farmers take to the forest and light controlled burns to make way for more land.

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Man made fire on the "cerrado" bordering Araguaya National Park, Mato Grosso, Brazil to clear the land for cattle use, August, 2008.

Glacial meltwater drains into a crescent-shaped lake

Daniel Beltrá

The slow rise in temperature causing more and more ice to start melting in areas that haven't melted before.

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Glacial meltwater drains into a crescent-shaped lake atop the west Greenland ice sheet, approximately 100km northeast of Ilulissat, January 20, 2023