Urban Field Station Collaborative Arts Program - Urban Field Station Artist
Re-Covering the Cityscape | A Manhole Cover Art Project Commemorating Lost New York History
The first of these works that I encountered was Nature Preserve, a beautiful and disturbing landscape of plant cuttings growing in tall tubes that are lit from above. It makes a forest that is artificial, that is on life-support, that engages the viewer both visually, standing in front of or walking through this artificial forest, and it also engages intellectually, about the environment and environmental issues. Nature Preserve is a visually, intellectually, and emotionally engaging piece, and an indicatio
In other works, such as Looking Out, Seeing Below from Above, or Land-Scaping, she has brought together growing plants with forms made of soft fabric or solid architectural materials, embodying the range of human experience from city-building to sewing, from urban life to private life.
Brody has also used a highly cultivated and processed plant form, tea, as the germinal focus of social-interaction works in gallery, community, and public spaces. Tea is as much a social relation as a natural product, and Brody exploits the ceremonial and interactive aspects as well as the ability of brewed tea to act as a dye or stain. CommuniTea has brought all these possibilities into locations all over New York City, providing a sculptural site in which performance, spoken-word art, and community gather
Urban Field Station Collaborative Arts Program - Urban Field Station Artist
Re-Covering the Cityscape | A Manhole Cover Art Project Commemorating Lost New York History