Ocean Gleaning

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Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning
Ocean Gleaning

Ocean Gleaning

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Ocean Gleaning proposes a collaboration between art, science, activism and like-minded groups that begins with the assumption that the ocean is a conscious entity that, in many different ways, from rising levels and temperatures to declining fish stocks to coral bleaching and finally to the deformed material plastic objects that float the world round, is attempting to communicate its declining state of being. Pam Longobardi has channeled her lifelong love of the ocean into an artistic practice that transforms the mountains of plastic debris that wash up on beaches around the world. For more than 15 years, Longobardi has utilized found ocean plastics as her primary source material, arranging hundreds of plastic pieces into wall-mounted artworks or floor-based sculptures. Working collaboratively with communities around the globe, Longobardi has cleaned beaches from Hawaii to Greece to Panama, and dozens of locations in between, removing tens of thousands of pounds of plastic from the environment and converting them into thought-provoking works of art that shed an unflinching light on the effects of global consumption on the natural world.

Released 2022
198 pages of full-color plates
252 pages
Swiss-bound hardcover printed on 170 gsm eco-friendly paper
8.5” x 11”
First Edition of 750
Essays by the artist, D. Graham Burnett, Sarina Basta, Anand Pandian, and foreward by Jennifer Wagner Lawlor
ISBN 978-1-7348312-8-3

Pam Longobardi's parents, an ocean lifeguard and the Delaware state diving champion, connected her from an early age to the water. She moved to Atlanta in 1970 and saw her neighborhood pond drained in order to build the high school she attended. Since then, she lived for varying time periods in Wyoming, Montana, California, and Tennessee and worked as a firefighter, tree planter, scientific illustrator, aerial mapmaker, collaborative printer, and color mixer. Her artwork involves painting, photography, and installation to address the psychological relationship of humans to the natural world. She has exhibited across the US and in Greece, Monaco, Germany, Finland, Slovakia, China, Japan, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Costa Rica, and Poland. She currently lives and works in Atlanta as Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Professor of Art at Georgia State University and drifts with the ongoing Drifters Project, following the world ocean currents.