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

Influences

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.

Public Works

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.

Teaching Experience
Deanna Pindell`s Teaching 2011-current: Site-Specific Projects Coordinator Goddard College, Port Townsend, WA 2007-2009: Faculty, Art Department. Olympic College, WA. 2010: Centrum and Port Townsend Marine Science Center. Interdisciplinary Arts/Sciences camp for youth (Whale Camp) 1986-2010: Deanna Pindell has taught numerous workshops for both youth and adult in drawing, skeletal anatomy, installation sculpture and interdisciplinary art/science.
Public Acquisitions
Deanna Pindell`s Aquisitions.
Symposiums
Deanna Pindell`s Symposiums 2011: Making Meaning Conference, Goddard College, Vermont. "Multispecies Picnic" (performative presentation panel) 2011: Open Engagement Conference, Portland State University. "Interspecies Dialogues in Eco-Art" (presentation with discussion) 2011: Forecast: Weather and Climate Change. American Meteorological Society, Seattle, WA, USA. (Invitational collaborative project with climate scientists; sculpture presented) 2010: Unruly Ecologies Symbiotica Australia (Squiggle Salal sculpture presented) 2010: Multi-Species Salon III: Hope in Blasted Landscapes American Anthropological Assoc, New Orleans, LA, USA. (Thneeds ReSeed sculpture presented) 2009: Bioneers Conference: From Classroom to Community San Rafael, CA, USA (Invitational. Images of Drip Line Drawing presented. Jurors Beverly Naidus and Sharon Siskin).

Categories

This artists work is found in the following categories on site:
Gods or Goddess, or Deity Sculptures Happiness/Joy/Exuberance/Wild Pleasure sculpture Human Figurative Sculptures Meditation sculpture/statues/statuettes/figurines Religious Sculpture Stylized People Sculptures Animal Abstract Contemporary Modern Stylised Minimalist Sculptures Installation Sculpture Modern Abstract Contemporary Avant Garde Sculptures or Statues or statuettes or statuary Museum National Gallery sculpture statuary Papier Mache sculptures or statues Varietal cross section of Floral, Fruit and Plantlife Sculpture Focal Point Abstract Contemporary Modern sculpture statue Fountains, Water Features and Cascades Garden Or Yard / Outside and Outdoor Sculptures Land Art Sculpture Public Art Sculpture Females Women Girls Ladies Sculptures Statues statuettes figurines Figurative Abstract Modern or Contemporary Sculptures Statues statuary statuettes figurines Human Form: Abstract Sculptures Spiritual sculpture Abstract Modern Contemporary statues sculpture statuary Assemblages Sculptures, Made from a Variety of Pieces or Bits collected together Recycled Materials / Objets trouvees or Upcycle sculpture Statues statuettes Conceptual Art Sculptures statues often Large or Monumental Abstract Art Tree Plant Shrub Bonsai sculpture statue statuette Architectural Sculptures Construction Abstract Sculpture Statues Light and Sound sculpture Indoor Inside Interior Abstract Contemporary Modern Sculptures Organic/Abstract Sculpture Abstract Contemporary Modern Outdoor Outside Garden / Yard Sculptures Statues statuary Minimalist Understated Abstract Contemporary Sculpture statuary statuettes

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