Ice Paintings, a solo exhibit by Xavier Cortada in the Governor's Office, Tallahassee, FL - September 15th

Ice Paintings
a solo art exhibit in the

Office of the Governor
The Capitol
Tallahassee, FL

September 15th - October 15th, 2007

Presented by the Office of the Governor Charlie Crist
&
the Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs

Florida Governor Charlie Crist and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger accept Antarctic "ice paintings" from artist Xavier Cortada at the Florida Summit on Global Climate Change in Miami on July 13, 2007.

Xavier Cortada, recipient of a 2006-2007 National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers fellowship, traveled to Antarctica to implement a series of projects and installations. While there, the Miami artist created “ice paintings” using sea ice, glacier and sediment samples provided to him by scientists working in Antarctica. The artist titled the works on paper by randomly selecting the names of geographic features from a map of the continent that inspired their creation. Click here to read more about Art in Antarctica.

Antarctic Sea Ice series


dakshin-gangotri	molodežnaja	amery

drygalski	bickerton	cook

mcmurdo	getz	fletcher

deception

Xavier Cortada
Ice Paintings: Antarctic Sea Ice series
Medium: Sea ice from the Antarctica's Ross Sea, sediment from Antarctica's Dry Valleys and mixed media on paper
Size: 12 inches x 9 inches
Year: 2007
Created onsite at McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica

Ice Paintings: Western Antarctic Ice Sheet series

sør rondone
enderby
menzies

vostok
adélie
erebus

scott
horlick
glossopteris

palmer

Xavier Cortada
Ice Paintings: Western Antarctic Ice Sheet series
Medium: Ice from Western Antarctic Ice Sheet, sediment from Antarctica's Dry Valleys, and mixed media on paper
Size: 12 inches x 9 inches
Year: 2007
Created onsite at McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica

Xavier Cortada's work has been shown across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Antarctica and locally in the Miami Art Museum, the Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium and the Bass Museum of Art. The Miami artist has been commissioned to create art for the White House, the Florida Supreme Court, Miami City Hall, the Museum of Florida History and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Cortada's work is also in the permanent collection of The World Bank.

For more information, please visit http://www.cortada.com.

Email:
xavier@cortada.com