Barbara Roux, Bird of Leaves, 2018, Digital Print, 13 x 19 inches
BARBARA ROUX
Artist Statement
My recent work continues to focus on my engagement with native habitat niches in the suburbs of New York City. I am an environmental artist and a conservation activist. One grows out of the other. Through my landscape based color photographs, narrative texts and sculptural works I address loss, flux and resilience in wild places on the verge of suburbia. I seek out the little events caused by some interference on the life of isolated individuals in a landscape. A tree with a twisted trunk, a common bird with odd plumage and things that seem out of place intrigue me. My color photographs capture a realistic moment at a habitat site. Often, the photographs include an element of sculpture I have created to represent a metaphor for transience and preservation. My narrative text translates my understanding of the natural and archeological history of the specific landscape. Subtly altered materials that I gather from a habitat are presented in the gallery installation to add another layer to the experience of my work.
Past Solo Exhibitions: Under Story, 2021
Happenstance, 2015 Growing Evidence, 2013 Birds Grow on Trees, 2010
A Stand of Trees, 1994