Brandon Ballengée Ecology-Minded Artist Brandon Ballengée Pictures What We’ve Lost

The Village Voice Jan 22, 2024

There is no shortage of artists working along the environment/climate/imperiled nature continuum lately. Some of this work is monumental, massive installations evocative of the scale of the challenges; some is relentless, direct action or poetic cinema employing the language of catastrophe and accusation; some is elegiac and pleading, enshrining the beauty of the natural world; some didactic, drowning in numbers and charts. And some, like the inventive, melancholy, mixed-media works of Brandon Ballengée, speak more quietly, forcing the viewer to lean in and listen closely. And that’s when they really let you know — we have a big problem on our hands.

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