Alison Orellana Malouf 'Saguaros 55 mph'
Drawer 3- Saguaros 55mph, Ink Jet Print, 8"x10", 2020, $25
Artist Statement
Design relies on abstraction to communicate only the information necessary for a project to be constructed. A designer gains control through abstraction only by removing complexity and nuance. Tangled cultural and biological histories are necessarily stripped away in favor of clarity. Nevertheless, nature is so vast and fractally intricate that abstractions are necessary to understand it, to alter it, or to imagine new futures for it. Ultimately, all of my work is about the turbulent interface between nature and culture. The environment is a massive cascade of systems that move at inconceivable timescales. The non-human nodes of those systems are utterly alien to human sensibility. To try to understand these interactions is both fascinating and horrifying. The most and least that I can do in positioning myself at this confluence of technology and ecology is to make work that responds to and illuminates the feedback between people and the land they inhabit in a provocative and progressive way.
Artist Bio
Alison Orellana Malouf is a landscape architect, painter, and environmental artist. Her art practice subverts the tools used in the profession of landscape architecture to interrogate the relationship between humans and nature as it is mediated by technology. Through the tropes and conventions of the design profession, she attempts to generate friction between nature and its image. The work foregrounds the points where the system of representation fails in order to critique the conceit of control over space and systems. Alison Orellana Malouf holds a SB in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has received recognition for both her design and art practices, and exhibited work in Cleveland, Boston, and San Francisco.
Drawer 3- Saguaros 55mph, Ink Jet Print, 8"x10", 2020, $25
Artist Statement
Design relies on abstraction to communicate only the information necessary for a project to be constructed. A designer gains control through abstraction only by removing complexity and nuance. Tangled cultural and biological histories are necessarily stripped away in favor of clarity. Nevertheless, nature is so vast and fractally intricate that abstractions are necessary to understand it, to alter it, or to imagine new futures for it. Ultimately, all of my work is about the turbulent interface between nature and culture. The environment is a massive cascade of systems that move at inconceivable timescales. The non-human nodes of those systems are utterly alien to human sensibility. To try to understand these interactions is both fascinating and horrifying. The most and least that I can do in positioning myself at this confluence of technology and ecology is to make work that responds to and illuminates the feedback between people and the land they inhabit in a provocative and progressive way.
Artist Bio
Alison Orellana Malouf is a landscape architect, painter, and environmental artist. Her art practice subverts the tools used in the profession of landscape architecture to interrogate the relationship between humans and nature as it is mediated by technology. Through the tropes and conventions of the design profession, she attempts to generate friction between nature and its image. The work foregrounds the points where the system of representation fails in order to critique the conceit of control over space and systems. Alison Orellana Malouf holds a SB in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has received recognition for both her design and art practices, and exhibited work in Cleveland, Boston, and San Francisco.
Drawer 3- Saguaros 55mph, Ink Jet Print, 8"x10", 2020, $25
Artist Statement
Design relies on abstraction to communicate only the information necessary for a project to be constructed. A designer gains control through abstraction only by removing complexity and nuance. Tangled cultural and biological histories are necessarily stripped away in favor of clarity. Nevertheless, nature is so vast and fractally intricate that abstractions are necessary to understand it, to alter it, or to imagine new futures for it. Ultimately, all of my work is about the turbulent interface between nature and culture. The environment is a massive cascade of systems that move at inconceivable timescales. The non-human nodes of those systems are utterly alien to human sensibility. To try to understand these interactions is both fascinating and horrifying. The most and least that I can do in positioning myself at this confluence of technology and ecology is to make work that responds to and illuminates the feedback between people and the land they inhabit in a provocative and progressive way.
Artist Bio
Alison Orellana Malouf is a landscape architect, painter, and environmental artist. Her art practice subverts the tools used in the profession of landscape architecture to interrogate the relationship between humans and nature as it is mediated by technology. Through the tropes and conventions of the design profession, she attempts to generate friction between nature and its image. The work foregrounds the points where the system of representation fails in order to critique the conceit of control over space and systems. Alison Orellana Malouf holds a SB in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has received recognition for both her design and art practices, and exhibited work in Cleveland, Boston, and San Francisco.