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Todd Gilens
Todd Gilens is a visual artist and garden designer working with people, places, and ideas. Trained in landscape architecture, he uses drawing, photography and writing to investigate and express people and places. He creates projects that can be shaped in dialogue with clients and communities, developed through historical research, cross-disciplinary inquiry, and the unique conditions of the places they will inhabit. His conceptual focus is on large-scale processes like water systems and ecological change, and how critical but largely invisible processes can be meaningfully encountered. The graphic work through which Todd develops these projects become their own records of discovery, portable objects for intimate reflection. Together, site-work, and the graphics and objects that research produces, express the complementary relationships of private and public life.
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Category: Earthworks/Land Artist; Sculptor; Visual Artist
Artist Statement
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I am a visual artist and garden designer working with people, places, and ideas. Trained in landscape architecture, I use drawing, photography and writing as ways to engage sites and subjects. I look for projects that can be shaped in dialogue with clients and communities, developed through historical research, cross-disciplinary inquiry, and the unique conditions of the places they will inhabit. My focus is on large-scale processes like water systems and ecological change, and how critical but largely invisible processes can be meaningfully encountered. The graphic work through which I develop these projects become their own record of discovery, portable objects for intimate reflection. Together, site-work, and the graphics and objects that research produces, express the complementary relationships of private and public life.