World Wind (bitforms gallery)

2022

Digital prints, generative software works

Software works in collaboration with James Schmitz

Exhibited at bitforms gallery, New York

bitforms gallery (link)

World Wind is an exhibition featuring artworks by Marina Zurkow and collaborative, generative pieces by Zurkow and James Schmitz.

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Signs, Wonders, Blunders (Dear Climate)

2019

Locust and red oak wood, vinyl plaques, lettering

Dear Climate Collective, in collaboration with Jennie Carlisle, Curator and Director of the Smith Gallery, Appalachian State
Fabrication: Roger Atkins of Cove Creek Woodworks
Fresh cut locust and red oak wood donated by Ian Snider of Mountain Works Sustainable Development
Documentation: Cheryl Zibisky

Commissioned by Climate Stories Collaborative at Appalachian State

This work is part of the project:

“What do I need to know for the planet to thrive?” This question animates “Signs, Wonders, Blunders,” an installation of 13 signposts, each with three multi-directional signs, located at interesting and suggestive locations on campus. The signposts use book titles and common phrases to create a set of playful proposals for new ways of understanding knowledge production and reception. Many of the book titles are drawn from some of the most influential works of contemporary ecological thought, by thinkers like Donna Haraway, Timothy Morton, Eduardo Kohn, Amitav Ghosh, and Jane Bennet. Others invoke concepts or topics closely associated with climate literacy and advocacy. Yet others allude to contemporary popular culture.

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The Breath Eaters

2022

Custom software (color, silent)
Edition of 5, 1 AP

The Breath Eaters is an animated, custom software work that visualizes CO2 pollutants and other greenhouse gasses produced by wildfire and fossil fuel plant emissions. Inspired by a Midjourney image of a world map and presented as a live, three-channelgenerative composition, the work demonstrates how particulate pollution is carried into the high atmosphere and across…

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Crucible for condensing and drifting

2022

Archival print on Tesuki-Washi Echizen
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3

This work is part of the project:

Crucible for condensing and drifting depicts a Monstera leaf, Kaddish cup from Belarus, and original drawings atop NASA imagery of clouds over the Amazon.

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Crucible for crumpling and folding

2022

Archival print on Tesuki-Washi Echizen
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3

This work is part of the project:

Crucible for crumpling and folding uses NASA’s image Argentina’s Talampya Natural Park, a region known for fossils from the Triassic Period. A stone souvenir from Hampi, India, a dead tick, a Japanese Netsuke rabbit, and a gifted Chinese bowl interface as a mysterious amalgamation on top of the landscape.

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Crucible for erupting and disgorging

2022

Archival print on Tesuki-Washi Echizen
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3

This work is part of the project:

The Crucible series urges a conversation between individual and global moments, touching on intimate aspects of this relationship. The porous connection between a lived experience to the far-reaching environment is portrayed through domestic, material manifestations. The artist’s own souvenirs, inherited objects, and hand-built ceramics interface with instances of environmental disaster and geo-planetary disruption. Crucible for…

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Crucible for inundating and disintegrating

2022

Archival print on Tesuki-Washi Echizen
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3

This work is part of the project:

Crucible for inundating and disintegrating pulls imagery from the 2020 Jiangxi, China floods, yellow microplastics, and a broken porcelain vessel from an original cast of light bulb packaging.

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Crucible for rising, rolling, and looping

2022

Archival print on Tesuki-Washi Echizen
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3

This work is part of the project:

Crucible for rising, rolling, and looping shows a handmade ceramic pot made by the artist containing a Gasteria “Little Warty” plant juxtaposed in front of NASA imagery of cloud streets forming over the Arctic Barents Sea.

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Crucible for surging, bursting, and spreading

2022

Archival print on Tesuki-Washi Echizen
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3

This work is part of the project:

The Crucible series urges a conversation between individual and global moments, touching on intimate aspects of this relationship. The porous connection between a lived experience to the far-reaching environment is portrayed through domestic, material manifestations. The artist’s own souvenirs, inherited objects, and hand-built ceramics interface with instances of environmental disaster and geo-planetary disruption. Crucible for…

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Crucible for smoldering and igniting

2022

Archival print on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Metallic
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3

This work is part of the project:

Crucible for smoldering and igniting pulls imagery from Russia’s “zombie fires”, a nickname for the recent phenomenon where fires have stayed smoldering underground from winters past. A wasp nest and ceramic figurine from Sicily accompany the satellite imagery.

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Crucible for speeding and rotating

2022

Archival print on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Metallic
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3

This work is part of the project:

The Crucible series urges a conversation between individual and global moments, touching on intimate aspects of this relationship. The porous connection between a lived experience to the far-reaching environment is portrayed through domestic, material manifestations. The artist’s own souvenirs, inherited objects, and hand-built ceramics interface with instances of environmental disaster and geo-planetary disruption. Crucible for…

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