“In nature, there are diverse states of existence that I continue to study—the structure of nature, the interaction of natural forces, the resilience of nature, and the complexity and awe in the engineering of nature.”

– Rebecca Hutchinson

“Most objects can be art: a urinal, a bed, etc. A dead animal presents a problem in that it decays and therefore can exist only for a finite amount of time before being altered irrevocably. Taxidermy has allowed me to incorporate animals in my work the way others use found objects.”

– Polly Morgan

“My work is about where human civilization meets the natural world—the places and ways flora and fauna collide and interact with people. I’m interested in how animals and plants adapt to human intrusion into their habitats, as well as how people remove nature and replace it with facsimiles and the effect that has upon the human spirit.”

– Jennifer Celio

“Nature is omnipresent in my work. I strive not only to honor its beauty, grace, and power, but also to go further, to explore and learn from nature’s consciousness, its infinite procession of interrelationships.”

– Ysabel LeMay

“My work is about observing and analyzing the relationships between nature and life—its mutations, delicacy, and rhythms, fusing and recomposing the organic materials I collect to give the illusion of a new life.”

– Andrea Lira

“The series Landscape Retreat tells stories about our daily experience of urban green spaces. It relates our perception and categorization of nature and how our lives, activities, and actions constantly affect its form.”

– Mimi Kato

“I try to deal with my own questions of duality, cruelty, childhood and what it heralds in later life. I try to create a zone of possible transformation to accommodate what is to come. And I try to approach childhood without naivety.”

– Françoise Pétrovitch

“One major dimension of my work is the interaction/collision between nature and culture. Thinking about the landscape as a personality and what happens to the land as we experience it and colonize it into our own sort of manicured presence.”

– Dawn Holder

“I am a cartographer of cultures and an icon maker in my lucid worlds. I want to be a visual interpreter of the mixed cultural worlds of my generation.”

– Jiha Moon

“We are interested in the notion of waste and garbage as the consequence of a certain lifestyle in a particular environment and as a material that has consequences for the future.”

– Goldschmied & Chiari

“I approach my subjects [the world’s oldest living trees and other organisms] as individuals of whom I’m making portraits. This facilitates viewers’ connection to a deep timescale otherwise too challenging for our brains to comprehend.”

– Rachel Sussman

“I use paintings and drawings of landscapes, plants, and animals by other artists as backdrops and then add or animate characters that manipulate the work in some form. The figures inhabit the paintings and drawings, erase them, blur them, and change them, alluding to our manipulation and effect on the environment.”

– Mary Tsiongas

“The land we call home is as much a container for our identities as our own bodies. In my recent projects, the natural landscape is the central character in a narrative about rural communities.”

– Lara Shipley