Juried Artists

Toby Binder (Germany) Title: Untitled from Conflict-Free Mining in Eastern Congo series Medium:  C-type prints Date of work: 2020 Dimensions: 20” x 16” framed  Description: The extraction of raw materials has driven mankind through the ages, but especially since the industrial revolution, and our approach to addressing the negative ramifications will have a significant impact … Read more

Michael Naify (United States) Title: Untitled Medium: Archival Digital Print  Date of work: 2019 Dimensions: 18” x 27” Description: This image is from the 2019 tailings (mining waste) dam collapse in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil, which killed 270 people. Michael Naify happened to be visiting at the time and photographed the aftermath of the disaster. … Read more

Jude Griebel (Canada) Title: Pinocchio Pipeline Medium: Air-drying clays, wood, adhesives, acrylic Date of work: 2022 Dimensions: 17” x 12” x 60” Description: The mechanics of consumerism with a specific focus on resource extraction and its implications for land depletion and climate shift are the driving concerns behind these works. Merging human, animal and insect … Read more

Marne Lucas (United States)  Title: Aurum Cascade 2’ Date: 2024 Dimensions: 20 x 16 x 1 inches framed, unique Medium: archival pigment print, 24 karat gold leaf, silver leaf, copper leaf, watercolor, ink, glass beads, cut paper, on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Description: A self taught multidisciplinary artist and end of life doula. This collage … Read more

sophia moffa (Italy) Title: Inner houses, Outer houses Inner houses, Outer houses, 2022  Medium: Pit-fired hand-collected clay Date of work: 2022 Dimensions: 28” x 7” x 3” Description: This is an installation of a row of houses made from clay filtered from soil and fired in the ground. The work explores the notion of “home,” … Read more

Jill Sampson (Australia) Title: The Disappearing Medium:  VCR tape Date of work: 2018 Dimensions: 134” x 87” x 87” Description: The Earth system has now entered the Anthropocene, a geological age in which plantation monocultures, pollution, and industrial-scale resource extraction activities are damaging or destroying vital ecological systems on which the planet and its biological … Read more

Henry Ortiz (Peru) and Chris Tigra (Brazil) Title: An Infinite Thing Dies When Gold Comes Out of the Throats of Madmen Medium: Textile intervention w/ plastic found in the area devastated by illegal gold mining in the region of la pampa, Peruvian Amazon. Digital Archival Prints Date of work: 2022 Dimensions: Textile 51” x 36” Two … Read more

Colin Lyons (United States) Title: Time Machine for Abandoned Futures Medium: Sculpture Date of work: 2023 Dimensions: 12″x12″x16″ Description: This installation explores the remnants of the Klondike gold rush in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. During his visit there, Colin Lyons was struck by the vast tailing piles left by decades of dredging in the area … Read more

Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo (Colombia) Title: Portrait of the Mura, 2019 – 2021 – The Amazon Rainforest, 2019 – 2021 – Match, the Mura Spiritual Leader, 2019 – 2021  Medium: Medium format 4” x 5” black and White Film, platinum-palladium 8” x 10” prints, scanned and printed on handmade coca paper with a UV printer in Colombia Date of … Read more

Jeff Schmuki (United States) Title: Extractors #1 and #2, 2023 Medium: Handbuilt and Wheelthrown Glazed Ceramic Date of work: 2023  Dimensions: 8″ x 14″ x 8″  Description: Lithium mining has become increasingly prevalent due to the high demand for this metal in smartphones and other electronic equipment. Although it has been embraced as an environmentally … Read more