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Painting, Watercolor on Wood
Size: 13.5 W x 5 H x 1 D in
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Emblems is a continuing series of small works (none larger than 14”) that focuses on the natural world. Fish, cactus, and Torrey Pines are but a few of the subjects that have appeared in these works. I am drawn to them both by their beauty and by their fragility. It is this latter point that invokes the series title. Species of plants and animals are disappearing at an alarming rate, evidently with human activity at least partly to blame. Thus, I fear that these inhabitants of the natural world may disappear in my lifetime, receding into the mist of memory with only these emblems with which to remember them.
Original Created:2010
Subjects:Nature
Materials:Wood
Styles:AbstractConceptualbotanical
Mediums:WatercolorPaperWaxWood
Painting:Watercolor on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:13.5 W x 5 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
Delivery Time:Typically 5-7 business days for domestic shipments, 10-14 business days for international shipments.
Handling:Ships in a box. Artists are responsible for packaging and adhering to Saatchi Art’s packaging guidelines.
Ships From:United States.
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Originally from Colorado, Stacie Birky Greene received degrees in Art and Art History from the University of Kentucky. She also studied in Florence, Italy, and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Although painting was the focus of her training, she has explored her art in a wide variety of media, including drawing, performance, photography, installation and video. The central focus of Birky Greene's work has been to explore nature through a combination of materials and techniques. Her approach has often been guided by a fascination with form and shape, particularly as nodes for connecting unlikely allies, such as coral and cacti. By taking organic materials (or at least their representation) out of context, she compels the viewer to revel in patterns of structural unity. Her recent work has also considered the impact of human consumption and climate change on the natural world. Appalled by mass deforestation and habitat destruction, she has turned her attention to bird species that have gone extinct since the time of her own birth. The tangible results of this study will be revealed over the course of the next few years, in a variety of projects. One feature of these works that is important to consider is her choice of materials: namely, junk mail, which she either uses "as is" or manipulates, with the addition of other detritus, into homemade paper. It is a project that implicates us all in its struggle: here are beautiful objects made, nevertheless, from unwanted materials. Moreover, the materials themselves are the products of overconsumption of resources - fossil fuels burned in production and transportation, and deforestation to provide wood pulp for paper. The problem of avian ecology and the pressures these birds face is multidimensional, but the viewer is placed in the unlikely position of assessing and admiring the victim even as its emblem is formed from components that have been implicated in its destruction. Stacie's art is featured in the following articles: Peripheral ARTeries Art Review Feb. 2015 UT San Diego Article: Stacie Birky Greene: Balboa Park as Terra Incognita Jan. 30, 2012
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