“To Say Nothing of the Dog”* Understanding connections between culture and nature in environmental art

Episode 36 January 11, 2021 00:52:23
 “To Say Nothing of the Dog”*  Understanding connections between culture and nature in environmental art
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“To Say Nothing of the Dog”* Understanding connections between culture and nature in environmental art

Jan 11 2021 | 00:52:23

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Show Notes

Episode #36, Sunday, January 10, 2021:

Hear Jeffrey Downing, Professor of Art at San Francisco State University and Artist-in-Residence at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art talk about how his work connects culture and nature. Downing was featured in the San Francisco Chronicle a few weeks ago for his environmental sculpture in Richardson Bay, designed to mark today’s king tides, which will be swamped by rising sea levels in the future.

According to a website describing his work: “Jeff Downing’s sculpture is informed by the humor and pop sensibility of the California artist Robert Arneson; by the stripped-down economy of Alberto Giacometti’s figures; and by the spontaneity and energy characteristic of the work of Pablo Picasso. Downing’s work with dog imagery depends on chance discovery of form but seeks to invoke feelings concerning the human condition and our varied relationship with the natural world. In Jeff Downing’s world view, studying the dog – with all of its expressiveness, intelligence and sensitivity - leads us to a better understanding of the connection between culture and nature.”

You can hear previous broadcasts of Sustainability Now! at KSQD.org and on Pocket Casts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.  Check out Marisha Farnsworth, an Oakland-based environmental artist, who appeared on the show on July 27, 2020.

(* with apologies to Connie Willis, author of the eponymous book).

 

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