Landon Newton

Artist Statement

Landon Newton is an artist, gardener, and independent researcher whose practice explores the reciprocal relationships between plants and people. Landon incorporates installation, photography, and site-specific works to explore themes of permanence, historical distortion, custodianship, care, and maintenance using living plants as materials. Her ongoing project The Abortion Herb Garden, considers the marginalization of plant knowledge and investigates the pluralist identities of plants and the historical amnesia surrounding the use of plants for contraception, birth control, abortion, and plant medicine.

Landon Newton, FEMM HORTUS, 2021, multimedia installation. An interactive installation and animation documenting herbariums in the year 2121 focusing on the biennial Daucus carota, (Wild Carrot) encompassing medicinal use, abortifacient and contraceptive use, wild cultivation, plant migration, and communication exploring speculative plant futures.

Bio

Landon's work has been exhibited at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Frieze NY, WIENWOCHE, Vienna, Austria, CICA Museum, South Korea, EcoFutures: Deep Trash, London, UK, Open Engagement, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, and Gagosian Quarterly. Recent recognitions include an Emergency Artist Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and On Our Radar 2021, Creative Capital. Fellowships and residencies include Denniston Hill, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Studios at MASS MoCA, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Landon received her MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and her BA in History from Smith College.

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Nathalie Miebach

Artist Statement

Nathalie Miebach explores the intersection of art and science by translating scientific data related to meteorology, ecology and oceanography into woven sculptures and musical scores/ performances. Her main method of data translation is that of basket weaving, which functions as a simple, tactile grid through which to interpret data into 3D space. Central to this work is her desire to explore the role visual and musical aesthetics play in the translation and understanding of complex scientific systems, such as weather.

Ian and Nicole, 2023, 15'x9'x1'. This is a piece that looks at the destruction and rebuilding of Daytona Beach after Hurricane Ian and Nicole passed through in the Fall of 2022.

Bio

Miebach is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including a Pollock-Krasner Award, Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award, TED Global Fellowship and two Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowships. She did her undergraduate studies in Chinese and Political Science at Oberlin College. She received an MFA in Sculpture and an MS in Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art. Her work has been shown in the US, Canada, Europe and Australia and has been reviewed by publications spanning fine arts, design, and technology. She lives in Boston.

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