deanna pindell
Mediums Used
Deanna Pindell creates Public art and installation sculpture, focused on ecology and sanctuary.
Deanna Pindell`s work serves environmental functions such as raising awareness and actual remediation (ie, cleansing water, restoring habitats).
Each sculptural installation is site-specific, created as a unique response to the land and light, habitat and history, meaning and dreams of the specific location.
Deanna Pindell creates meditative and meaningful spaces.
Deanna Pindell`s Personal Statement
Ecology. Sanctuary.
Metamorphosis. Remediation.
I fuse these themes in site-specific public art, gallery installations, and sculptures. My most recent works focus on environmental remediation (such as cleansing polluted water or nurturing native plantings).
As I consider the creation of a site-specific public work, I seek to integrate science, social culture, the ecology of flora and fauna, history and visual poetry. Gallery installations offer the opportunity to explore the complexity of environmental issues, confronting ethical decisions, practical challenges, and mortal realities. The spaces which I create are meditative and thought-provoking.
Beeswax, straw, clay, paper? native plants, trees, water? steel, resins, plastics, rubber? I make use of many varied materials. Each is chosen for a specific sculpture, to express specific meanings and symbolism, as well as for the tactile, or translucent, or structural qualities.
Sculptures by deanna pindell
Credentials
Qualifications
Deanna Pindell`s Education,
2011: Goddard College, WA. MFA-IA2008: Artist Trust, WA.
EDGE Professional Development Program.1999-2005: Gage Academy, WA.
Post-Baccalaureate1986: University of Washington, WA, BFA.,Deanna Pindell`s Education,
2011: Goddard College, WA. MFA-IA2008: Artist Trust, WA.
EDGE Professional Development Program.1999-2005: Gage Academy, WA.
Post-Baccalaureate1986: University of Washington, WA, BFA.
Exhibitions
yes
Awards
GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS
2014 Eco-Arts Awards Semifinalist Eco Arts Awards, Ashville, N.C2013 Puffin Foundation Grant Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, N.J.
2012: Third Place, Beyond Landscape
WEAD (Women Environmental Artists),
Marin Community Foundation, Novato, CA.2009: Professional Development Grant,
Olympic College, Washington.2008: Funds for Excellence Grant,
Olympic College Foundation, Washington2006: Merit Award,
Sequim 30th International Juried
Exhibition1983: First Place, (three categories:
drawing, ceramics, and sculpture)
Cache Gallery, Alaska.Publications
Deanna Pindell`s Publications
Exhibition Catalogues:2011: Forecast: Climate change and Art.
Exhibition catalogue
Lele Barnette, Curator2009: Collective Vision Gallery Statewide
Exhibition Catalogue, Jake Seniuk, Juror2008: Collective Vision Gallery Statewide
Exhibition catalogue, Susan Parke, Juror2005: Vanishing Museum`s Guerrilla Gallery.
Figure Studies Invitational
Exhibition catalogue
Chris Overman, Curator.2003: Northwest Pastel Society 17th
International. Exhibition Catalogue.,Deanna Pindell`s Publications
Exhibition Catalogues:2011: Forecast: Climate change and Art.
Exhibition catalogue
Lele Barnette, Curator2009: Collective Vision Gallery Statewide
Exhibition Catalogue, Jake Seniuk, Juror2008: Collective Vision Gallery Statewide
Exhibition catalogue, Susan Parke, Juror2005: Vanishing Museum`s Guerrilla Gallery.
Figure Studies Invitational
Exhibition catalogue
Chris Overman, Curator.2003: Northwest Pastel Society 17th
International. Exhibition Catalogue.
Deanna Pindell is inspired by a wide range of sculptors from the whole of human history. Here are several 20th c. artists who have influenced my work.
Joseph Beuys
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Buster Simpson
Alan Sonfist
Robert Smithson
Nancy Holt
Eva Hesse
Jackie Brookner
Helen and Newton Harrison
Patricia Johanson
Basia Irland
The writer/art curator/ critic Lucy Lippard has been the most influential philosopher for my work.
Deanna Pindell`s Public Works
2014 Webster`s Woods Sculpture Park Port Angeles Fine Art Center, WA.
Finding Grace
2014 Carkeek Park, CoCA Center on Contemporary Art "Heaven and Earth VI"
Water Willow
2012: Trinity Episcopal School and McColl Center for Visual Art
Charlotte, NC, USA
We All Share the Same Water
2012: McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, USA
Butterfly Bower
2010: Webster?s Woods Outdoor Sculpture Park.
Port Angeles Fine Art Center, WA.
Squiggle Salal
2010: Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA
Poetry For Salal
2009: Fort Worden State Park, WA
Drip Line Drawing 1: Fallen Brothers
2008: Webster?s Woods Sculpture Park.
Port Angeles Fine Art Center, WA
Juncture
2007: Webster?s Woods Sculpture Park
Port Angeles Fine Art Center, WA
Dreaming Tree with Meditation Bench
1986: University of Washington Campus
Seattle, WA
Echochamber.