Oxen on Pleasant Street, c. 1867 Davis Brothers. Courtesy of the Portsmouth Athenaeum
Lynn Cazabon presents a unique and site-specific realization of Losing Winter, an ongoing participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and reflecting upon what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on seasonal patterns.
The project addresses 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.
Losing Winter features photographs, videos, and sounds of the winter season in Portsmouth and the Seacoast region. 3S Artspace fostered connections between the artist and community residents to record memories, as well as Portsmouth High School students, who created original artworks in response to the recordings, both included in the exhibit.
Artist Statement
Lynn Cazabon is an artist whose multifaceted projects employ participation as a strategy to deepen public engagement with the environmental, existential, and emotional ramifications of the climate crisis. She asks people to share their memories, feelings, thoughts on topics connected to climate change and uses still and moving lens-based media, text, and audio to create curated collections which are displayed in exhibitions, public displays, performances, and virtually.
Artist Bio
Lynn Cazabon (Maryland)
Lynn Cazabon is a multimedia artist whose projects are scalable, site-specific, and employ participation as a strategy to deepen public engagement with topics at the interface between environmental and social issues. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions, including with Witte Rook, Breda, the Netherlands; Maryland Center for History and Culture, Baltimore, MD; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania; Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan; WRO Art Center, Wrocław, Poland; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA; Artists Space, New York, NY; and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY. She has received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Puffin Foundation, Maryland State Arts Council, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund, Franklin Furnace Archives, The Camargo Foundation, MacDowell, and Yaddo. She received an MFA degree in Photography from Cranbrook Academy of Art and BFA and BA degrees from University of Michigan and is currently a Professor of Art at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Congress Street Snowbanks, 1867. Davis Brothers. Courtesy of the Portsmouth Athenaeum
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3S Artspace is supported in part by a grant from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Funded in part by a grant from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation - Rutman Family Fund.
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