MARBLEIZED OIL FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO
| dc.contributor.author | MOREN, LISA | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-15T18:21:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-02-15T18:21:22Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | How can we respond to the ever growing, ever multiplying ecological tragedies without sinking into a quagmire of negativity and fear about the present and the future? Lisa Moren performs a brave and important art of inquiry into the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and accomplishes the nearly impossible task of expressing both the despair and the hope. She does not turn away from the devastation, but plunges into its materiality, extracting what she can to make something else out of it. Something else that nourishes our desire for a future — not of denial or even recuperation — but rather one where we might pursue possible ways out of the mire. While art cannot offer us political solutions, it can sustain our sense that there can be another way, and in this Lisa Moren’s work is a great gift, evoking the sense of other possibilities that we need in order not to turn a blind eye, in order to respond, to care about our eco-system. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This project is grateful for the generous support from the Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC), the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC), the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Creative Arts (CIRCA) and the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Additional thanks goes to Norie Neumark for participating in this project and for her insights through her introduction, and to Aliyah Baruchin and Mary-Ellen O’ Neill for their talented editorial contributions, Guenet Abraham and Peggy Re for their design consultation, and Marcus Relacion for his beautiful execution. All photographs are by Lisa Moren unless otherwise noted. A special thanks goes to Monica Donnelly and Jocelyn Kehl for encouraging me to urgently enter these murky waters in the first place. A very special thanks goes to fisherman Patrick Dickinson (Captain Patrick) for his invaluable role mentoring the narrative of this project and hosting me on this journey. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://userpages.umbc.edu/~lmoren/pdf/marble.pdf | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 66 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | artists' books | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2jwwv-jvqb | |
| dc.identifier.citation | LISA MOREN, MARBLEIZED OIL FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO, 2014 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/21019 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Visual Arts Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts | |
| dc.rights | This item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author. | |
| dc.title | MARBLEIZED OIL FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |