Exhibit Info
This Exhibition Is No Longer Showing
Title:
Flight Path: from Princeton Artist Directory (PAD) members
Dates:
Exhibit Dates Jan. 3, 2022 – Jan. 24, 2022
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‘If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world’s ecosystems would collapse.’
– Sir David Attenborough
Princeton Artists Directory, a newly formed group of professionally active artists all living and working in Princeton, present their response to Flight Path at Princeton Public Library from Jan 3 to Jan 24, 2022.
Flight Path is the initiative of a British artist Louisa Crispin who is increasingly concerned at the loss of insect habitat and thus damage to the pollinator communities on which we rely so strongly. Through a simple concept this project has inspired so many to look at their own environment and reconsider their connections with nature, and what we can each do to improve Flight Paths.
Each PAD artist who participated in this collaborative work, used a single ‘concertina’ that Louisa provided. She made these through random mark making in graphite on both sides of a large sheet of paper cutting this into strips and folding on the square. The concertina sculptures focus attention on the barriers to nature and the struggle for the artists to find empty space to draw, paint, collage, or cut. ( A strong metaphor for the struggle in nature.)
None of us artists had ever worked quite like this before. The size is small intentionally to focus attention on the world of insects.
The work is a ‘satellite ‘of the UK Flight Path Community Project and is the only one in the US. After display at Princeton Public Library, all the PAD artists’ work will be returned to Louisa for further exhibition opportunities in the UK.
Participating artists, the title of their piece for the exhibit and where you can see their work:
| Catherine Gowen | A Diverse Pollinator Community | https://www.instagram.com/catherine_gowen/ |
| Charlotte Bialek | Aquatic Life | https://www.instagram.com/cdbialek/ |
| Ellen Veden | Pollinators Need You | https://www.instagram.com/ellenveden/ |
| Heather Barros | Invasive Spotted Lantern Fly | https://www.heatherbarros.com/ |
| Karen Stolper | The Human Effect | https://www.karenstolperillustrations.com |
| Libby Ramage | Digger Wasp | https://www.instagram.com/libbyramage/ |
| Maria LoBiondo | All life is linked | http://www.njstorynet.org/maria-lobiondo |
| Mary Waltham | Rusty- Patched Bumble Bee | https://marywaltham.com/ |
| Meg Brinster Michael | A Pollinator’s Paradise | https://www.megrit.com/ |
| Mic Dino Boekelmann | Portals | https://www.micboekelmann.com/ |
| Ryan Lilienthal | The Metamorphosis | http://www.ryanlilienthal.com/ |
Princeton Artists Directory, a newly formed group of professionally active artists all living and working in Princeton, present their response to Flight Path.