The Ogden Museum of Southern Art presents Shifting. Photographs by Michel Varisco, an exhibition on view through July 23, 2012.
Michel Varisco Green Marsh Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Shifting is a photographic installation focusing on the Louisiana wetlands and the Gulf of Mexico. Often through aerial views, the artist explores both the beauty and degradation of this environment, and chronicles the dynamic changes that are both natural and man-made. This body of work invites the audience to become invested in the fate of a threatened natural resource.
Michel Varisco is a native New Orleans artist. Her photographs, assemblages and site-specific installations explore loss and regeneration. She received her MFA from Tulane University and studied in France (LaCoste School of Art) and Italy (U.G.A) and is an artist/mentor at NOCCA|Riverfront in New Orleans. Varisco’s work is exhibited and published internationally and is included in public, private and corporate collections in the U.S. and abroad.
Shifting is sponsored in part by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, the SURDNA Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation.
To find out more information on how to fund the accompanying exhibition book, go to: http://www.usaprojects.org/project/shifting