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Lynn Cazabon

Animation / Video / Film, Multidisciplinary, Multidisciplinary Art, Multimedia, Photography, Public Art, Visual / Media

My artistic practice is focused on the intersection of environmental and social issues and intersects with disciplines outside of art, including ecology, botany, and psychology. My projects are scalable, site-specific, and often involve participation of specific communities of people. In order to increase the impact of my work, I utilize diverse means of dissemination, for example, transit system displays, print and digital billboards, exterior installations, and mobile phone applications. The media I employ are analog and digital photography, video, audio, and virtual and augmented reality.

About the Artist

Lynn Cazabon is an artist based in Baltimore, MD and is a Professor of Art at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her work has been exhibited internationally with museums and galleries, as public art, and in solo and group exhibitions with the Maryland Center for History and Culture (Baltimore, MD), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest, Romania), Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center (Tainan, Taiwan), South Bend Museum of Art (South Bend, IN), WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth, New Zealand), The Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA), Artists Space (New York, NY), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (Buffalo, NY), Schroeder Romero Gallery (New York, NY), Atlanta Contemporary Art Center (Atlanta, GA), and with the Art in Embassies Program. She has received grants and fellowships from the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, The Puffin Foundation, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Maryland State Arts Council, Fulbright Scholar Program, Trawick Foundation, Franklin Furnace Archives, The Camargo Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Cazabon received an MFA degree in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and BFA and BA degrees from University of Michigan.

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Featured Work

Photos

Uncultivated is a site-specific, scalable art project focused on wild plants within urban landscapes. The project draws attention to plant species that are typically rejected as weeds but which are able to thrive in the harsh conditions we have created in cities and are increasingly found around the world. Documentation of site-specific mural, Wroclaw, Poland
Uncultivated is a site-specific, scalable art project focused on wild plants within urban landscapes. The project draws attention to plant species that are typically rejected as weeds but which are able to thrive in the harsh conditions we have created in cities and are increasingly found around the world. Documentation of site-specific installation on facade of WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of 'portraits' of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW), a multilevel security prison. Portrait Garden used environmental stewardship as a tool for self-reflection through the selection of plants to represent each woman and resulted in the co-creation of three perennial gardens on the prison grounds. The display of the project consists of a collection of photographs of the cultivated plants paired with recorded statements by each woman and was first displayed as a series of interactive posters in Baltimore Light Rail trains.
Uncultivated is a site-specific, scalable art project focused on wild plants within urban landscapes. The project draws attention to plant species that are typically rejected as weeds but which are able to thrive in the harsh conditions we have created in cities and are increasingly found around the world. Documentation of site-specific poster for bus shelter, Bronx, NY
Uncultivated is a site-specific, scalable art project focused on wild plants within urban landscapes. The project draws attention to plant species that are typically rejected as weeds but which are able to thrive in the harsh conditions we have created in cities and are increasingly found around the world. Poster for bus shelter
Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of 'portraits' of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW), a multilevel security prison. Portrait Garden used environmental stewardship as a tool for self-reflection through the selection of plants to represent each woman and resulted in the co-creation of three perennial gardens on the prison grounds. The display of the project consists of a collection of photographs of the cultivated plants paired with recorded statements by each woman and was first displayed as a series of interactive posters in Baltimore Light Rail trains. Documentation of poster in Baltimore Light Rail train

Videos

  • Losing Winter

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    Site-specific, participatory project and archive of memories about the season of winter, video, audio, augmented reality. Screen recording from AR mobile app.
    Medium: video, audio, augmented reality
    Year: 2022 (ongoing project)
    Details: excerpt, 1 min, 50 sec

  • Melt

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    This video features ice sculptures created to represent memories about winter shared by participants for the realization of Losing Winter in Bucharest, Romania
    Medium: video
    Year: 2018
    Details: 7 min, 18 sec

  • Losing Winter

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    Promotional video for Losing Winter as realized with the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania
    Medium: video
    Year: 2018
    Details: 1 minute

  • Ecomimesis

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    Ecomimesis is a site-specific, virtual reality (VR) environment containing animated virtual plants that allows viewers to have an intimate encounter with plants in an accelerated life-cycle. The project is designed to be customized for the venue in which it is shown so the architecture of the space is represented within the animation. The species featured is Conyza canadensis, a common urban ‘weed’ chosen for its prevalence in human crafted landscapes that is at same time often 'invisible' to most people as they choose to ignore such so-called nuisance species.
    Medium: virtual reality
    Year: 2018
    Details: excerpt: 2 minutes

  • Losing Winter

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    Four memories from realization of Losing Winter for Oresman Gallery at Smith College, 2022. For this iteration, artist Lynn Cazabon used the project as a means to engineer an intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue between communities of people aged 60+ and Smith College students enrolled in Professor Ellen Kaplan’s class THE 312 Theatre in Dialogue with the Landscape.
    Medium: video, audio, augmented reality
    Year: 2022 (ongoing project)
    Details: excerpt, 9 mins 18 sec

Music/Audio

  • Portrait Garden

    See more information about Portrait Garden
    Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of 'portraits' of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW), a multilevel security prison. Portrait Garden used environmental stewardship as a tool for self-reflection through the selection of plants to represent each woman and resulted in the co-creation of three perennial gardens on the prison grounds. The display of the project consists of a collection of photographs of the cultivated plants paired with recorded statements by each woman and was first displayed as a series of interactive posters in Baltimore Light Rail trains.
    Audio excerpt
    Medium: photography, text, audio, community participation
    Year: 2014
    Details: excerpt, 3 mins 50 sec

  • Portrait Garden

    See more information about Portrait Garden
    Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of 'portraits' of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW), a multilevel security prison. Portrait Garden used environmental stewardship as a tool for self-reflection through the selection of plants to represent each woman and resulted in the co-creation of three perennial gardens on the prison grounds. The display of the project consists of a collection of photographs of the cultivated plants paired with recorded statements by each woman and was first displayed as a series of interactive posters in Baltimore Light Rail trains.
    Medium: photography, text, audio, community participation
    Year: 2014
    Details: excerpt, 2 min 43 sec

  • Portrait Garden

    See more information about Portrait Garden
    Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of 'portraits' of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW), a multilevel security prison. Portrait Garden used environmental stewardship as a tool for self-reflection through the selection of plants to represent each woman and resulted in the co-creation of three perennial gardens on the prison grounds. The display of the project consists of a collection of photographs of the cultivated plants paired with recorded statements by each woman and was first displayed as a series of interactive posters in Baltimore Light Rail trains.
    Medium: photography, text, audio, community participation
    Year: 2014
    Details: excerpt, 1 min 7 sec

  • Losing Winter

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    Losing Winter is a site-specific, participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and providing a window onto what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on weather patterns. The project is realized through the participation of local communities, site-specific exhibitions, and virtually through a dedicated augmented reality mobile application. The project responds to the phenomenon of environmental amnesia, wherein with each new generation the changed or degraded state of the environment is perceived as normal, by preserving personal memories about the season as it was in the past in a particular location.
    Memory from realization of project in Bucharest, Romania.
    Medium: video, audio, augmented reality
    Year: 2018
    Details: 57 sec

  • Losing Winter

    See more information about Losing Winter
    Losing Winter is a site-specific, participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and providing a window onto what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on weather patterns. The project is realized through the participation of local communities, site-specific exhibitions, and virtually through a dedicated augmented reality mobile application. The project responds to the phenomenon of environmental amnesia, wherein with each new generation the changed or degraded state of the environment is perceived as normal, by preserving personal memories about the season as it was in the past in a particular location.
    Memory from realization of project in Bucharest, Romania
    Medium: video, audio, augmented reality
    Year: 2018
    Details: 57 sec