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DESCRIPTION
Mixed media collage (oil on paper and printed maps)
20 x 29.5 cm
2018
These works reflect on the Critical Zone on Earth. The Critical Zone is the “heterogeneous, near-surface environment in which complex interactions involving rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms regulate the natural habitat and determine the availability of life-sustaining resources” (National Research Council, 2001). Working with the form of a “Globe Gore” (a system of mapping spherical globes onto a two-dimensional surface) and unfolding, disrupting, and reframing them, the works suggest a double meaning: pointing to the losses on Earth that require our attention and the bloodshed resulting from violence.
BIO
Kirsten Stromberg (b. San Francisco, CA) is an artist based in Florence, Italy. Working with experimental music, visual art, and education, her research focuses on listening and decentering as forms of resistance and reparative practice. She graduated as a Senior Fellow from Dartmouth College and completed an MFA in Arts and Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University. For over 25 years, she has studied with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (rosenclaire) in Italy and South Africa. She has lectured at several institutions and currently teaches Painting and Experimental Music/Sound Art at Syracuse University in Florence.
DESCRIPTION
Mixed media collage (oil on paper and printed maps)
20 x 29.5 cm
2018
These works reflect on the Critical Zone on Earth. The Critical Zone is the “heterogeneous, near-surface environment in which complex interactions involving rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms regulate the natural habitat and determine the availability of life-sustaining resources” (National Research Council, 2001). Working with the form of a “Globe Gore” (a system of mapping spherical globes onto a two-dimensional surface) and unfolding, disrupting, and reframing them, the works suggest a double meaning: pointing to the losses on Earth that require our attention and the bloodshed resulting from violence.
BIO
Kirsten Stromberg (b. San Francisco, CA) is an artist based in Florence, Italy. Working with experimental music, visual art, and education, her research focuses on listening and decentering as forms of resistance and reparative practice. She graduated as a Senior Fellow from Dartmouth College and completed an MFA in Arts and Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University. For over 25 years, she has studied with Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (rosenclaire) in Italy and South Africa. She has lectured at several institutions and currently teaches Painting and Experimental Music/Sound Art at Syracuse University in Florence.