Dana Sherwood: Animal Appetites & Other Encounters in Wildness - (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Dana Sherwood: Animal Appetites and Other Encounters in Wildness showcases the artist's pioneering approach to understanding humans' relationship to wild nature through her experiments with cross-species communication. The resulting films, sculpture installations, and paintings created over the past ten years offer unique opportunities for engaging with significant contemporary discussions around the environment, global food chains, feminism, animal studies, and spirituality. The book offers interdisciplinary essays and catalogues a variety of visual material, including paintings, video, recipe facsimiles, and sketches. A generously illustrated section of plates is followed by a biographical chronology of the artist's career to date, and a checklist of works in the exhibition"--

Book Synopsis

This beautifully designed volume explores Sherwood's multimedia adventures in cross-species communication

The first monograph on Dana Sherwood (born 1977), this book showcases the New York artist's pioneering experiments with cross-species communication. Her films, sculpture installations and paintings engage discussions around the environment, global food chains, the rapid growth of social media, feminism, animal studies and spirituality. Featuring a tipped-on cover image, metallic embossing and various page sizes and paper stocks, this book expands upon these themes, with essays and documentation of paintings, film stills and recipe and sketchbook facsimiles. Generously illustrated sections of plates are followed by a chronology of the artist's career to date and a checklist of works.