Marine Environmental Art Exhibit
Octoplas by Michelle Lougee
Boston Sea Rovers is excited to offer a brand new exhibit this year showcasing local, national and international artists. This collection of artists will amaze you with their creativity in using marine debris to create inspiring works of art. In presenting this exhibit, we hope to help educate the public as to the impact of marine debris on wildlife. Each work features items such as plastic bags, flip-flops, fishing nets and other debris often found in our oceans.
We hope this exhibit serves to engage and inform the public of the environmental challenges marine ecosystems face due to discarded plastic and simple steps that can be taken to prevent it.
This exhibit features work by local artist Michelle Lougee. It also includes work by Andrew Hughes, David Liittschwager, Pam Longobardi, Andrew McNaughton, Susan Middleton and Michael Pitts.
The exhibit will be open Saturday and Sunday during the show.
Special Thanks to Grand Circle Travel for their generous sponsorship.
Artists:
Michelle Lougee, Cambridge, MA
Michelle is an environmental artist, sculptor, and ceramist. She is a member of the Boston Sculptors Gallery, and her artwork has been shown in many New England museum exhibits, including Chesterwood, Worcester Art Museum, the Danforth Museum, and Bristol Art Museum. In addition, she teaches sculpture, ceramics, pottery, and drawing to adults and children. Michelle will also be leading Art activities during in Boston Sea Rovers Kids Day Activities on Sunday, March 11.
Andrew Hughes, England
Andy Hughes is an English photographer whose photographic works consider the beach, ocean and environmental concerns. He graduated from the Royal College of Art and has supported various NGO’s and has worked with Surfers Against Sewage since 1991. He was the first Artist in Residence at Tate St Ives and recently short listed artist for the Arts Council England Antarctic Fellowship. In 2010 his work was exhibited at the Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia. He lives and works in Cornwall, England. His most recent book is ‘Dominant Wave Theory’. Andy Hughes was awarded the first Tate Gallery St Ives Artist Residency in 1993 and was recently shortlisted for the Arts Council Antarctic Fellowship 2007 & 2008. In 2009/10 a major exhibition of Andy Hughes work was exhibited at The Mariners Museum in Virginia. Andy Hughes’ work was recently auctioned for the Marine Conservation Society at Deutsche Bank headquarters in London, England where his work received one of the highest bids.
David Liittschwager, California
David Liittschwager is a freelance photographer who grew up in Eugene, Oregon. Now a contributing photographer to National Geographic and other magazines, Liittschwager is also a successful book author. In 2002 he produced the books Skulls and X-Ray Ichthyology: The Structure of Fishes for the California Academy of Sciences. Liittschwager’s books in collaboration with Susan Middleton include Archipelago, Remains of a Rainbow, Witness, and Here Today. Recipient of an Endangered Species Coalition Champion Award for Education and Outreach and a Bay & Paul Foundation Biodiversity Leadership Award, Liittschwager lectures and shows his work in both fine art and natural history contexts. His photographs have been exhibited at many museums, including the American Museum of Natural History in New York City; the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.; the Honolulu Academy of Art in Hawaii; and currently at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Liittschwager was honored with a 2008 World Press Photo Award for his article on marine microfauna, which appeared in the November 2007 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Pam Longobardi, Georgia
Pam has had over 40 solo exhibitions and 65 group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the US, China, Italy, Spain, Finland, Poland, Japan, Greece and Monaco. Her artworks are in numerous public and private collections. Longobardi is a Professor of Art at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia and created the Drifters Project in 2006, an ongoing environmental intervention involving photography and installations focusing on global ocean plastics pollution. She exhibited this work in New York and Venice, Italy and a book on the project was published in 2010 titled Drifters: Plastics, Pollution and Personhood. Recent exhibitions include Voyages on an Uncanny Sea at Gallery Diet in Miami, and a commission of new work for Oceanomania at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, and upcoming at Savvy Contemporary in Berlin in May 2012. Pam is also co-presenting with Wayne Sentman on Saturday during the Daytime presentations. Pam will have copies of her book and will be available for book signings at posted times in the exhibit area.
Susan Middleton, California
Susan Middleton is a photographer and author specializing in the portraiture of rare and endangered animals, plants, sites, and cultures for the past 30 years. She was Chair of the Department of Photography at the California Academy of Sciences from 1982 to 1995, where she currently serves as Research Associate. Her most recent book, in collaboration with Mary Ellen Hannibal, is Evidence of Evolution (Abrams 2009). Previous books in collaboration with David Liittschwager include Archipelago and Remains of a Rainbow (National Geographic); Witness and Here Today (Chronicle Books). She has produced films and exhibitions in conjunction with her book projects. Her most recent project is ‘Hermit Crabs!’, a short film produced for the web. Middleton was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in 2009, and is the recipient of an Endangered Species Coalition Champion Award for Education and Outreach and a Bay & Paul Foundation Biodiversity Leadership Award. Middleton’s photographs have been exhibited and published throughout the world, both in fine art and natural history contexts.
Andrew McNaughton, Kenya
Andrew’s unique pieces are made from materials found on the beaches and shores of the river inlets in the Malindi area of Kenya. These items from the Indian Ocean include tooth brushes, flip flops and bottle tops. Natural materials are also used in the works.
Additional thanks to Wayne Sentman from the Oceanic Society for helping to organize the exhibit.
