Wood, Mud and Scraps in Eco-Art Today
William Alburger , Forest, 2013, 65" x 108" x 9" rescued spalted birch, in an solo exhibition at GRACE Eco-friendly art is meeting the world of high art, if we're to take a cue from what's showing at local art centers and galleries. It can be stated that the earliest environmental art started with the artists' visions and applied those visions to the environment, with little interest in sustainability. Quite the opposite trend is developing now. Several emerging artists, the “environmental artists” of the 21 st century put nature in the center--not the artist or the idea. Nature is the subject and the artist is nature's follower. The following artists' creations are about the land and earth; other artists interested in the environment have been more concerned with a world under the sea . William Alburger, Non-traditional Backwards One-Door, 2012, 27" x. 13.5" x 5.25 reclaimed Pennsylvania barn wood, specialt