Helen Glazer's work in photography and photogrammetry-based sculpture is informed by scientific insights into interacting forces affecting ecosystems and shaping landscapes. Experiences as Baltimore Ecosystem Study artist-in-residence and National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program grantee have shaped her thinking. Her project Walking in Antarctica premiered as a solo show at Goucher College, Baltimore, funded with a Rubys Award from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and an artist's grant from the Puffin Foundation in 2017.
Ice-Bound
A study of space along the frozen shoreline of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin during the spring thaw. Intended for gallery exhibition, playing on a loop. Exhibited at Light City Baltimore in 2017. Additional exhibitions include the Minneapolis College of Art & Design Gallery, the Taubman Museum at Virginia Tech University and the Tyler School of Art Gallery at Temple University.
Medium: SD Video
Year: 2012
Details: 4:05 runtime
Turn of the Tide
A meditation on the relationship between the rhythms of the body and rhythms within the natural world, reaffirming our relationship to the land.
Medium: Installation/performance where a performer's breath controls the tide in real time.
Year: 2019
Details: Variable
Going/Staying
A performance/installation using long range bluetooth technology to send signals from pressure sensors in the artist’s shoes to a kick drum when the artist is within a 1 mile range of the drum. This technology enables an immediate real-time connection with no delay between the artist’s footsteps and the drum beating. The work creates an awareness of the unconscious everyday rhythm of walking. This awareness makes one more conscious of where they are and where they are going, to see where they have not seen before.
Medium: A performance/installation using artist's footsteps in real time
Year: 2015-2017
Details: Excerpt provided (52 sec.), full duration variable
Exhibitions have included solo show at Kanvas, NYC; group exhibitions at Skowhegan '75 on 22nd St. NYC, 2021. Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Solomons, MD, Maryland 2022 at Howard County Arts Center, Works on Paper Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Montpelier Art Center, Laurel, MD.
Artist-in-Residence, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, 2009-2102. Currently teach Studio Art and Art History at College of Southern Maryland.
Education: University of Illinois (BFA, 1972); Northern Illinois University (MA, 1975; MFA, 1976); Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.1972