Metaflora at Allumer Natchez
Visitors move to make Metaflora‘s projected magnolias bloom and die. photo credit Allumer Natchez.November 2022
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“Extinct in the Wild” at Arthur Roger Gallery, Fall 2022
Oct 1 – Dec 17, 2022 Extinct in the Wild is the title of Courtney Egan’s fourth exhibition with the gallery, and also the title of the piece presented above. The installation features 2 other distinct projection-based works that meld technology with nature. Egan creates time-lapse botanical still-life work by taking a series of photographs that are compiled into films and composited with physical elements. With this process, she can create “impossible arrangements.” Over the last two years, while producing the […]
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2021 “Superflora” show at Umlauf Sculpture Garden and Gallery, Austin TX, features “Extinct in the Wild” and “Metaflora”
https://www.umlaufsculpture.org Metaflora, 20192-channel interactive video installationsilent Video documentation of Metaflora here Metaflora is an interactive installation in two parts. In one section, a viewer sees their silhouette created by blooming magnolia flowers, and in the other, their silhouette browns and decays the same once-blooming flowers. Inside the life cycle of a plant, one can envision a microcosm of human life on a much shorter time scale. Flowers allow people to reflect on our lives in miniature and respond to the […]
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“Care and Cultivation” installation with Natori Green at Allumer Natchez, 2021
Visitors to Natchez’s Allumer Light Festival walk through the greenhouse, viewing projections from the inside as well as outside.
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2020 Public Art Award, Gentilly Resilience District, “Footbridge Over the Bioswale” and Native Wildflower Meadow at Mosquito Control
The City of New Orleans is in the process of overhauling several blocks of Gentilly’s water management infrastructure, and my proposal to build a community-designed footbridge over a new bioswale is one of 5 public art projects awarded. A native wildflower meadow is part of the community engagement for this project. It is located at 2100 Leon C. Simon Blvd on the property of the Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board. Other partners in the project include the Native Plants […]
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