Image, Action, and the Environment with Matthew López-Jensen
Matthew López-Jensen
Image, Action, and the Environment with Matthew López-Jensen
Join us via Zoom Wednesday, July 12th, at 7 pm EDT
Matthew López-Jensen is an interdisciplinary social practice environmental artist based in the Bronx who uses photography as an entry point for a range of projects. His arts practice and teaching explore the relationship between photography, stewardship, and landscape. Most of his projects begin with photographs and video but end in public walks, artist maps, gardens, clean-ups, and forest restorations.
The title of this Kinship talk is taken from a photography elective Matthew López-Jensen created and teaches at Parsons School of Design. The course examines the role of documentation in art and activism. Matthew will be sharing several current overlapping landscape projects as well as a quick look at The Work and The Water, his current project as artist-in-residence with the Erie Canal. Together we will explore how pictures instigate change and how photographic documentation elevates the process of community engagement.
Matthew López-Jensen is a Bronx-based, interdisciplinary environmental artist and educator whose projects combine social practice, walking, mapping, photography, and research. He is the 2023 Erie Canal Artist-in-Residence, a Guggenheim Fellow in photography, and has twice received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of site-specific landscape projects. He has participated in residencies at Macdowell, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Queens Museum, Guild Hall, and the NYC Urban Field Station, among others. He has been commissioned to create public projects by the New York Botanical Garden, City as Living Laboratory, the High Line, Green-Wood Cemetery, Waterfront Alliance, Brooklyn Bridge Park, and others. His work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art and the Brooklyn Museum, among other institutions. He received his MFA from the University of Connecticut, and his BA from Rice University. Matthew López-Jensen teaches environmental art and photography at Parsons School of Design at The New School and at Fordham University.
Matthew López-Jensen
Matthew López-Jensen
Matthew López-Jensen
Matthew López-Jensen
Matthew López-Jensen
