Plastic Pollution Coalition
liz | June 13th, 2012 | Pages | Comments Off on Plastic Pollution Coalition
Plastic Pollution Coalition is a global alliance of individuals, organizations and businesses working together to stop plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals and the environment.
With its work, Plastic Pollution seeks to put plastic pollution at the forefront of global social, environmental and political discourse.
In support of the PPC, The Loft at Liz’s is offering their limited edition print series “REFUSE PLASTIC” featuring works by Raymond Pettibon, Pam Longobardi, Judith Selby and Richard Lang, Dianna Cohen and Lila Roo.
Raymond Pettibon - "Plastic Pollution Coalition" Print from original painting, 2010 - 30" x 24" - edition of 25 - $1200
Los Angeles artist Raymond Pettibon’s eclectic inspiration ranges from surfing to 19th century literature. His early work in the punk rock scene secured him a cult following. He has since developed an international reputation as one of the foremost contemporary American artists working with drawing, text, and artist’s books.
Lila Roo - Photographic still from performance piece “oil.water”, 2010 - 26" x 24" - edition of 25 - $1200
Lila Roo’s art is an experiential and physical act, blending body and material into nature. She finds that plastic garbage is the most plentiful resource our natural world, and so she strips it to shreds, braids it to rope and searches for settings to command it. Roo uses art as a ritual and language to engage the people and environments she inhabits, looking for the universal visual connections.
Dianna Cohen - Print from original artwork, “Shake Well Naked”, 2009 - 20" x 24" - edition of 25 - $1200
Dianna Cohen is a co-founder of Plastic Pollution Coalition but her artistic life is also deeply connected to plastic. She is best known for her two-dimensional and three-dimensional works using recycled plastic bags – sewn together – ranging from small hanging pieces to room-sized installations, which have been shown internationally.
Judith Selby and Richard Lang - Photographic print "What's For Supper", 2009 - 24" x 24" - edition of 25 - $1200
Artists Judith Selby-Lang and Richard Lang (www.plasticforever.blogspot.com) started collecting plastic debris washing up on the shore of a 1,000 yard strip of Kehoe Beach of the Point Reyes National Seashore and carrying it away by the bagful. They say that while their collaborative work sends “a message about the spoiling of the natural world by the industrial world, our final intent is aesthetic and celebratory.”
Pam Longobardi - From original painting / collage "Eye of the Ocean", 2009 - 20" x 24" edition of 25 $1200
In her artwork Pam Longobardi addresses the psychological relationship between humans and the natural world. She has created the Drifters Project, an ongoing collaborative interdisciplinary project focusing on marine debris and plastic pollution. A professor of art at Georgia State University, Longobardi has had over 35 solo exhibitions and 65 group exhibitions in galleries and museums worldwide.
