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Ice Paintings

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.

Antarctic Sea Ice series

norvegia
norvegia
weddell
weddell
wilkins
wilkins
bellingshausen
bellingshausen
wrigley
wrigley
ross
ross
balleny
balleny
porpoise
porpoise
vincennes
vincennes
prydz
prydz
amundsen
amundsen
astrid
astrid


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
 

 
slessor
slessor
hawkes
hawkes
coman
coman
takahe
takahe
leverett
leverett
wade
wade
matusevich
matusevich
ninnus
ninnus
totten
totten
mellor
mellor
shirase
shirase
widerOe
widerøe

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

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. 

 
 

Antarctic Ice Paintings are available for $2500 each. Please confirm availability with artist prior to purchasing the art piece.

 



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Governor's Office exhibit


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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.
 

Copyright © 1997-2007 by Xavier Cortada.
All rights reserved.

Email:
xavier@cortada.com