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Working in entirely different media, Edward Fausty and Wendy Hirschberg have recently discovered an uncanny overlap in their art practices: Traditionally a less problematic subject for artists, nature is not what it used to be, thanks largely to human development on a large scale. The artists are excited about creating more than just a two-person show, but an installation in which environmental realities dance back and forth between the two bodies of work.

Fausty’s photographs contrast the benign tourist activity on the Li River in Guangxi Province, China, with shoreline trees that have been forcibly adorned with plastic and botanical waste by disturbingly high flood waters. His digital pigment prints on fine papers are often experienced as painterly, even as they depict  zones of death, decay and disorder.

Hirschberg’s sculpture depicts loaded symbols of botanical beauty while incorporating trash; she cuts up non-recylable plastic objects, sews old-fashioned ribbon, ties plastic newspaper wrappers and distorts metal detritus. The impact of our overheated world is caught in the appearance of burns in some works, while others evoke malignancy, as plastic trash emerges as elements of futuristic plants.  

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Mixed material sculpture by Wendy Hirschberg with 

digital pigment photograph by Edward Fausty