From the University of North Carolina Asheville:
Pam Longobardi to Speak at UNC Asheville, Nov. 15; Her “Drifters Project” Turns Plastic Ocean Trash into Awareness-Raising Installations
Artist Pam Longobardi will discuss and present images from her “Drifters Project,” from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 15, in UNC Asheville’s Humanities Lecture Hall. This event is free and open to everyone.
“In 2006, after discovering the mountainous piles of plastic debris the ocean was depositing on the remote shores of Hawaii, I began collecting and utilizing this plastic as my primary material in my project called ‘Drifters,’” says Longobardi. “Since then, I have made scores of interventions, cleaning beaches and making collections from all over the world, removing thousands of pounds of material from the natural environment and re-situating it within the cultural context for examination.”
Longobardi is professor of art at Georgia State University where she teaches drawing, painting and printmaking. She has had more than 30 solo exhibitions and 65 group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the U.S., China, Italy, Spain, Finland, Poland, Japan and elsewhere.
In 2013, Longobardi created a site-specific installation for a special project of the Venice cultural association Ministero di Beni Culturali (MiBAC) and the Ministry of Culture of Rome for the 55th Venice Biennale, on the Island of San Francesco del Deserto in the Venetian Lagoon, a work made from plastic water bottles, mirrors and a satellite dish that signaled an apology to St. Francis across the lagoon to the island of Burano. She exhibited photography in Seescape at George Adams Gallery in New York, and won the prestigious Hudgens Prize (2013), one of the largest single prizes given to an artist in North America. She has an ongoing collaboration supported by the Ionion Center for Art and Culture in Metaxata, Kefalonia, Greece.
For more information, visit https://art.unca.edu/pam-longobardi-and-age-plastic.
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