Olivine and Basalt Portrait (of a child of your choice)
The paintings in this series by T. Charnan Lewis slowly capture and sequester greenhouse gases because their surfaces are covered in pulverized olivine and basalt—a mineral from the Earth’s subsurface and a volcanic rock. Both materials react chemically with carbon dioxide, transforming and rendering benign this poison which is disrupting weather patterns, killing whole species and threatening our planet’s and our children’s future.
The basalt is black and the olivine is pale green, thus they make a perfect contrast for creating traditional profile silhouette portraits.
T. Charnan Lewis was born in San Antonio, Texas is 1971 and grew up in rural Maryland. In 1994, she earned degrees in Studio Art, Art History and Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland.
Lewis then spent a year working and hitchhiking through the Middle East and Eastern Africa. She had an 8 year career in film and television production until a near-death experience on a sailboat on her 30th birthday.
In 2004, Lewis earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), won the graduate painter's prize, a traveling scholarship, and a MD Governor's Citation/Individual Artist Award.
In 2004, Lewis earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), won the graduate painter's prize, a traveling scholarship, and a MD Governor's Citation/Individual Artist Award.
Notable exhibition venues include The New Museum, The Queens Museum, Centro de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona, Printed Matter, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Aichi Museum of Art (Japan), The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum. She lives in Beacon, NY and works in Learning & Engagement at Dia: Beacon.
She met her life partner, Kit Nicholls, Director of the Cooper Union Writing and Learning Center, on a subway platform just after moving to New York City from a residency in Berlin. She lives in Beacon, NY and works in Learning & Engagement at Dia: Beacon.
http://www.tcharnanlewis.com/
The paintings in this series by T. Charnan Lewis slowly capture and sequester greenhouse gases because their surfaces are covered in pulverized olivine and basalt—a mineral from the Earth’s subsurface and a volcanic rock. Both materials react chemically with carbon dioxide, transforming and rendering benign this poison which is disrupting weather patterns, killing whole species and threatening our planet’s and our children’s future.
The basalt is black and the olivine is pale green, thus they make a perfect contrast for creating traditional profile silhouette portraits.
T. Charnan Lewis was born in San Antonio, Texas is 1971 and grew up in rural Maryland. In 1994, she earned degrees in Studio Art, Art History and Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland.
Lewis then spent a year working and hitchhiking through the Middle East and Eastern Africa. She had an 8 year career in film and television production until a near-death experience on a sailboat on her 30th birthday.
In 2004, Lewis earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), won the graduate painter's prize, a traveling scholarship, and a MD Governor's Citation/Individual Artist Award.
In 2004, Lewis earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), won the graduate painter's prize, a traveling scholarship, and a MD Governor's Citation/Individual Artist Award.
Notable exhibition venues include The New Museum, The Queens Museum, Centro de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona, Printed Matter, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Aichi Museum of Art (Japan), The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, and The Hudson Highlands Nature Museum. She lives in Beacon, NY and works in Learning & Engagement at Dia: Beacon.
She met her life partner, Kit Nicholls, Director of the Cooper Union Writing and Learning Center, on a subway platform just after moving to New York City from a residency in Berlin. She lives in Beacon, NY and works in Learning & Engagement at Dia: Beacon.
http://www.tcharnanlewis.com/
$300 - 1 bid
Minimum Bid Increment:
$25
Value:
$500
Donated By:
T. Charnan Lewis