Here, have some art.

Kristina Sheufelt - Detroit - Sculptor/Painter This blog contains a mix of all types of art, both of my creation and of others.

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Mark Dion & William Schefferine, Tropical Rain Forest Preserves (1989, remade 2003) from Mark Dion with William Schefferine, American Fine Arts, Co., New York 1990

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Cabinet of Marine Debris, 2014

Mark Dion

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Mark Dion, Mobile Wilderness Unit (Wolf) (2009)

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Agnes Denes, Wheatfield—A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan, with Agnes Denes Standing in the Field, 1982. Courtesy the artist and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York.

“Wheatfield” is, in retrospect, viewed as a watershed moment in public art. Its short existence was documented in photographs, which have taken on an added resonance as New York City’s empty spaces fill up and familiar landscapes are eradicated. A piece that was once about the contrast between the man-made and the natural environment is now more about the vulnerability of everything. The two behemoth skyscrapers in the background of the photos unexpectedly proved as perishable as the artwork in the foreground. 

Read more here about Agnes Denes and “Wheatfield”

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Aïda Muluneh, Strength in Honor (2016)

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Grass Mask, 2019

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SIMON STARLING Island for Weeds, 2003

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Agnieszka KURANT A.A.I 1-6 2014 termite mounds built by termite colonies from colored sand, gold, glitter, and crystals

Collaboration with Entomologist, Dr. Paul Bardunias, SUNY-ESF with the researchers at the University of Florida, and Dr. Leah Kelly, Rockefeller University

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Summer Jamz | Peter Tarka

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My Studio Lately 

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Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room, 1965  Ph: Lucy Dawkins

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Jack Vanzet

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Brendan McGillicuddy 

ANTHROPOCENE

Anthropocene refers to the current geological age in which human behaviors constitute a geological force. Our collective capacity to change the environment renders nature a human construct; the natural parameters required for the existence of life are today subject to human activity. Anthropocene embodies the idea of a man-made nature.

Sculpted by using high-pressured water, natural-like formations are eroded out of foam. These formations are then cast in fiberglass, resulting in an ice-like mass that echoes the Arctic seen in The Sea of Ice (1824), Caspar David Friedrich’s iconic landscape painting. Friedrich’s work appeared at a time when Arctic exploration was still in its infancy.

Today, as the North Pole melts at an alarmingly fast rate, the Arctic draws human attention not as an unexplored frontier, but as an unexploited resource, with various nations, Canada included, vying to stake a claim. As Slavoj Žižek notes in Living in the End Times, we are encouraged to focus on the potential wealth of an ice-free Arctic so that we can remain blind to the crisis of global warming.

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New Works

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I still can’t get over this new pink glaze! It’s so 😍 Now in my Etsy shop. Link in profile #ceramics #pottery #vase #pink (at Florentia Clayworks)

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Chang Young Kim

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Saint Sebastian, 1671 by Giuseppe Giorgetti