Reno based artist Hannah Eddy created this mural for the 2023 edition of the SHINE Mural Festival in St. Pete, Florida.
Check out her Instagram as well for more artwork.
Reno based artist Hannah Eddy created this mural for the 2023 edition of the SHINE Mural Festival in St. Pete, Florida.
Check out her Instagram as well for more artwork.
This mural was created by Chicago-based artist Max Sansing for the 2023 edition of SHINE Mural Festival in St. Pete, Florida.
You can also find his work on his Instagram.
On the Road, created by Caratoes for the 2016 edition of SHINE Mural Festival in St. Pete, Florida.
For more recent work by the artist, also check out her Instagram.
The images above are from SUPERFLEX: This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg, GENERATOR: USF Contemporary Art Museum’s inaugural exhibition. The two part exhibition includes a sculptural installation and the mesmerizing interactive animation Vertical Migration, in which viewers encounter a siphonophore that reacts to their movements.
From the gallery about the exhibition-
This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg emerges from SUPERFLEX’s in-depth research into the deep sea, biodiversity, and the climate. The exhibition immerses viewers in two parallel and interconnected realms, separated by a curtain which acts as an imaginary filter between land and sea. Passing through the curtain brings visitors from a terrestrial space unsettled by rising water to the ocean’s dark depths, to meet one of the most important cleaners of the ocean, the siphonophore. Relatives of the jellyfish, siphonophores bring between two and six billion tons of carbon a year from the surface down to the seabed, where it is stored. This Is The Tip Of The Iceberg offers an opportunity to encounter this unfamiliar species, prompting reflection on the impacts and consequences of climate change, especially relevant to Florida and its coastal communities, and encouraging humans to imagine a future defined by interspecies living and ecological coexistence.
For a more detailed discussion of the work, the gallery has created an exhibition catalogue that can be viewed online or downloaded as a pdf.
Vertical Migration was originally created in 2021 by SUPERFLEX for ART 2030 and was projected on the United Nations Secretariat Building in NYC during the 76th United Nations General Assembly.
SUPERFLEX’s statement on the project-
The sea is not an abyss. It teems with an almost unimaginable array of life. Every night, the largest biological migration on Earth takes place, as trillions of creatures travel closer to the surface to feed. Some of these animals, like shrimp, are well-known. Others, like siphonophores—relatives of jellyfish—are unfamiliar: varying wildly in size, from the slightness of a fingernail to the length of a whale, they look like nothing that we find on land.
How does it feel to be one of these creatures? To explore this question, SUPERFLEX designed a computer-generated siphonophore and created an animated film, Vertical Migration, depicting its ascent. At first, the film mechanically circles the creature, getting closer and closer while giving the audience a view of it from all angles. But eventually the perspective shifts, the camera’s movements become more fluid, and the viewer sees the world from the perspective of the siphonophore.
Unsettling our perceptions of scale and otherness, Vertical Migration is an intimate encounter with a life form that bears no resemblance to human beings, though we share a planet, an ecosystem, and a future. Because of sea-level rise, humans will also be migrating vertically in the coming centuries, to higher elevations and raised buildings. The siphonophore’s story is our story. Though we can never experience its journey through the pitch-black ocean depths, we can shift our perspective to recognize that we’re connected, that our actions affect each other, and that we share a common fate.
For a look at the work in motion, below is the trailer from ART 2030.
About SUPERFLEX from their website-
SUPERFLEX was founded in 1993 by Jakob Fenger, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen, and Rasmus Rosengren Nielsen. Conceived as an expanded collective, SUPERFLEX has consistently worked with a wide variety of collaborators, from gardeners to engineers to audience members. Engaging with alternative models for the creation of social and economic organisation, works have taken the form of energy systems, beverages, sculptures, copies, hypnosis sessions, infrastructure, paintings, plant nurseries, contracts, and public spaces.
Working in and outside the physical location of the exhibition space, SUPERFLEX has been engaged in major public space projects since their award-winning Superkilen opened in 2011. These projects often involve participation, involving the input of local communities, specialists, and children. Taking the idea of collaboration even further, recent works have involved soliciting the participation of other species. SUPERFLEX has been developing a new kind of urbanism that includes the perspectives of plants and animals, aiming to move society towards interspecies living. For SUPERFLEX, the best idea might come from a fish.
This exhibition closes 11/22/23.
This mural by Joram Roukes was created for the 2017 edition of the SHINE Mural Festival in St. Pete, Florida.
For more work by Roukes, also check out his Instagram.
Chris Dyer “Optimystics Journey”, Acrylic
To celebrate the 9th year of the SHINE Mural Festival, Morean Arts Center is showing work by several of the artists who are participating. The center is also one of the places to pick up a guidebook for the festival with information on the artists and a map of the mural locations.
Artists in this show- Artist Jones, Chris Dyer, Hannah Eddy, Fabstraq, Hoxxoh, Rhys Meatyard, Sarah Sheppard, Michael Vasquez, and Andrea Wan.
This exhibition closes 10/26/23.
Artist Jones, “Lady Grace”, Acrylic and mixed media
Hoxxoh, “Ibis. One. Hurricane”, “Ibis.Two.Hurricane”, “Ibis.Two.Hurricane”, Acrylic on wood panel
Hoxxoh, “Ibis.Two.Hurricane”, Acrylic on wood panel
Rhys Meatyard, (clockwise), “Transmission”; “Dawn at the Edge of Infinity’; and “(Everything) Heeeere’s Sunny”, Mixed media
Hannah Eddy, “Make it last”, Acrylic and spray paint
Michael Vasquez, “Smurf”, Acrylic
Sarah Sheppard, “Enter Love”, Acrylic
Fabstaq, “No Rules” and “Freedom Hurts”, Acrylic
Andrea Wan, “Wonders” Ink and gouache on paper and “Inevitable Growth”, Ink on paper cutouts
This mural by Diske Uno in Sarasota, Florida, was created as part of PINCfest, organized by PINC Experience.
Nuestro Andar Florece by artist, muralist, arts educator and filmmaker Michelle Angela Ortiz, is located on the wall of Mixteca Organization in Brooklyn, NY. Mixteca is a community-based organization established by “a group of concerned community members to address critical needs in health, education, social and legal issues facing the burgeoning Mexican and Latin American immigrant community in Brooklyn”.
About the mural from the artist’s website-
Nuestro Andar Florece (Our Journey Blooms), celebrates the stories of Mexican immigrant women that have planted their roots in Brooklyn, New York. As part of the Barrio Roots Festival that took place in late October 2016, I led this mural project along with artist Federico Zuvire. The project was supported by Habitajes. They offered a series of creative workshops at Mixteca Organization with women that shared their immigration stories. The women are mothers, students, educators, and some survivors of domestic violence that found a new home in New York. The women decided on the messages that are conveyed in the mural. For three weeks, the artists, workshop participants, local Brooklyn artists, and neighbors participated in the creation of the mural.
Above are two of the works from Athena LaTocha’s The Remains of Winter (Battle Hill, East), 2022, currently at Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
From the cemetery’s website about the work-
Athena LaTocha creates large-scale works inspired by her close observations of the natural world, from the deserts and mountains of the Southwest to the Great Plains. She often incorporates elements of these environments, including soil, sand, bark, and rocks. Recently, she has been particularly drawn to trees, considering them as record keepers that bear the markings of time.
Inspired by Green-Wood’s centuries-old trees and its legacy as a place of remembrance, LaTocha has created The Remains of Winter. She cloaked the remains of two massive European beeches on Battle Hill in thin sheets of lead, a material that has been used for centuries in coffins to slow the decomposition of the body. By hand-forming this malleable metal onto the trees, LaTocha captures the unique details of their shapes and forms, even as they slowly degrade beneath the lead.
All around these sculptures, the Cemetery is in a continuous cycle of transformation. Felled trees are turned into mulch for new plantings, earth is removed then replaced for each new burial, and even the stone monuments themselves slowly erode. Through The Remains of Winter, LaTocha memorializes these shifts and changes while also raising profound questions about what we choose to commemorate and mourn—whether it is what we can witness before us or that which, like the movement of continents and land masses, unfolds over lifetimes.
The sculptures will remain on view through September 2023.