MARINA ZURKOW
Custom commercial postcards, 4″ x 6″
A selection of geographically distributed port nations were analyzed for their relative trade stronghold in particular materials and items. These were then converted into textile designs for new national identities based on the materials’ / items’ corresponding iconography.
A series of swimsuits that visualize the global circulation of stuff, shrinking the overwhelming system of complex trade relationships to a human scale.
More&More (The Invisible Oceans), is a catalog of the eponymous project’s first exhibition at bitforms gallery in New York, featuring full-color images of the art on display (including video stills, bespoke bathing suits, and fungal sculptures), as well as an introduction by Marina Zurkow and a conversation between Zurkow and international curator Kathleen Forde.
The ocean makes up 71 percent of our planet’s surface. So, how is it that we know more about Mars than the marine environments of Earth? As impenetrable as the deep oceans are to humans, we imperviously live in a black box of international shipping, reducing the ocean to a surface rather than an environmental…
Custom animation software, custom bathing suits, screens, shipping crates, plaster, 3D prints, mycelium, plexi shelving, custom wallpaper
In collaboration with Sarah Rothberg and Surya Mattu<br>
Software: Sam Brenner <br>
Web development: Neil Cline
Solo exhibition at Jugendstilsenteret og KUBE, Ålesund, Norway
Part of the group exhibition, “Edge of the Sea”
Custom bathing suits, custom wallpaper, custom postcards, custom website, laptop, desk, mannequins, postcard rack, salt
In collaboration with Sarah Rothberg and Surya Mattu<br>
Web development: Neil Cline
Group exhibition “Ici Sont Les Dragons” at Maison Populaire, Montreuil, France
Digital graphic
In collaboration with Sarah Rothberg
Commissioned by CEAP
CEAP commissioned Zurkow and Rothberg to create a primary, scalable illustrative identity for the Center, who “conducts, supports, and disseminates research that contributes to the protection of both animals and the environment.”
Emoji collection, available as downloadable images, icon set, instagram filter
In collaboration with Viniyata Pany<br>
Disaster icons illustrated by Manuja Waldia <br>
Resilience icons illustrated by Anna Lin <br>
iOS & Android app developed by Johann Diedrick & Denny George<br>
Thanks to Richard Farren Lapham
Supported by NYU Green Grants, in collaboration with NYU Office of Sustainability
The Climoji are designed to distill some of the causes and effects of climate change into tiny, potent icons.
Silkscreen on found/used cardboard with rubber stamping
14″x14″
Edition of 3
Additionally unique, SP collages on silkscreen
Accretions is a series of silkscreens on repurposed packaging cardboard. These works describe agglomerations of consumer goods: the result of what is bought, shipped globally, and discarded over time.
Risograph printed book, 96 pages.
Published by the Desert Humanities Initiative, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University
Editors: Ron Broglio and Marina Zurkow
Drawings: Marina Zurkow
Contributors: Riley Andrade, Matt Bell, Ron Broglio, Matthew Chew, Jeffrey Cohen, Kelli Larson, Sharon Suzuki-Martinez, Cora McHugh, Kevin McHugh, A.J. Nocek, Jane Rodgers, Rashad Shabazz, Matthew Toro, Julian Yates, Marina Zurkow
Commissioned by the Desert Humanities Initiative, Arizona State University
This contemplative field guide is “designed to help orient you to the desert, like yoga poses for being with the land.”
Digital prints, generative software works
Software works in collaboration with James Schmitz
Exhibited at bitforms gallery, New York
World Wind is an exhibition featuring artworks by Marina Zurkow and collaborative, generative pieces by Zurkow and James Schmitz.
25 drawings
Charcoal on Legion Stonehenge archival paper
18″x24″
Also available as digital prints
Ron Broglio, author. Illustrations, Marina Zurkow
Commissioned by the author. Published by University of Minnesota Press
Animals are staging a revolution—they’re just not telling us. From radioactive boar invading towns to jellyfish disarming battleships, this book threads together news accounts and more in a powerful and timely work of creative, speculative nonfiction that imagines a revolution stirring and asks how humans can be a part of it.
Archival print on Tesuki-Washi Echizen
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3
Crucible for condensing and drifting depicts a Monstera leaf, Kaddish cup from Belarus, and original drawings atop NASA imagery of clouds over the Amazon.
Archival print on Tesuki-Washi Echizen
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3
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.
Archival print on Tesuki-Washi Echizen
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3
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…
Archival print on Tesuki-Washi Echizen
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3
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.
Archival print on Tesuki-Washi Echizen
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3
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.
Archival print on Tesuki-Washi Echizen
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3
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…
Archival print on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Metallic
38 x 26 in / 96.5 x 66 cm
Edition of 3
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.