Looking back, seeing art
In 2001 the Snug Harbor Cultural Center’s Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art launched an exhibition as a response to the closure of the Fresh Kills Landfill. 19 artists and artist-teams responded with “Fresh Kills: Artists Respond to the Closure of the Staten Island Landfill,” a collection of paintings, sculpture, photographs, videos and conceptual works, some of which are directly about Fresh Kills while others deal more generally about environmental issues.
A small sample of work taken from the exhibit can be found on our flickr page.
Alexis Rockman BARN OWL, 2001 Leachate and polymer on paper, 9 x 12 inches
