Your cart is currently empty!
Full Menu
Lori Goldberg: All for Water Top 5
Our current exhibition All for Water aims to provoke critical thinking around the global availability and health of freshwater, including the social, economic and political change required to protect this resource for generations to come. We’ve invited three artists: Bill Horne, Lori Goldberg and Betty Kovavic to share resources that they find inspiring as they create artwork addressing the future of freshwater. We invite you to click through to learn more!
1. My Own Painting Practice
I came to realize that dissolved acrylic paint is a nano-plastic that ends up in the ocean, so I researched ways to clean up my practice. Artists can take responsibility by removing microplastics from acrylic wash water. GOLDEN Paints goldenpaints.com explains how to separate paint from water. I now make this part of my practice and educate all my students on how to do this.
2. Tom Lehr, Musician and Songwriter
After International Earth Day was created in 1970, millions of Americans demonstrated across the USA, which lead to the formation of the Clean Air and Water Act. Many artists responded to this though their work. I was a teenager at the time and Tom Lehr’s song “Pollution” had a strong impact on me. The lyrics inspired my first environmentally focused artwork, which became a three minute super-8 film.
3. Research for Artist Residency
During the developmental stages of an artist residency program, I visited waste management facilities, liaising with program directors and operation managers who allowed me to walk through the sites. This experience had a lasting impact that pushed my art practise in new directions. Check out “Trash Talk” from Lori Goldberg on Vimeo.
4. Articles
Some online articles have imprinted my psyche forever. For example, the sobering 2019 joint study by Dalberg and the University of Newcastle in Australia documents the extent of human consumption of plastic.
5. Monet’s Lily Pond paintings
My artwork in All for Water, Beneath the Water Lies the Truth, was inspired by Monet’s Waterlily paintings. Monet said that his paintings were meant to create “the refuge of a peaceful meditation.” What better way to send a message, than by disrupting a peaceful image of water lilies with plastic garbage?
