Adriana G. Prat
Topographical Visions
01. The Reality of Cimate Crisis, 2019, pencil, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on corrugated cardboard, 7.8 x 14.7 x 1 inches, $650.00
02. The Glaciers Are Melting, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on corrugated cardboard, 14 x 14 x 1 inches, $1100.00
03. Story of an Island, 2023, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on corrugated cardboard, Variable: 7 panels of 7.8 x 14.7 inches (each 17 x 36 x 7.8 inches), $4500.00
04. It Is All about the Topographies of the Exploited Land, 2023, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on corrugated cardboard, 34 x 28 inches, $4200.00
05. Ocean Topographies II, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayons on repurposed vinyl record, 12 inch diameter, $700.00
06. Listen to the Land, 2021, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on repurposed vinyl record, 12 inch diameter, $700.00
07. Mapping Your Conscience, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on repurposed vinyl record, 12 inch diameter, $700.00
08. Exploration, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on repurposed vinyl record, 12 inch diameter, $700.00
09. Resetting, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on repurposed vinyl record, 12 inch diameter, $700.00
10. Planet B?, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayons on repurposed vinyl record, 12 inch diameter, $700.00
11. Ocean Topographies III, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayons on repurposed vinyl record, 12 inch diameter, $700.00
12. What Do You See From Above?, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on repurposed vinyl record, 12 inch diameter, $700.00
13. Ocean Topographies I, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayons on repurposed vinyl record, 12 inch diameter, $700.00
14. Learning New Ways (Owing It to the Oceans), 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayons on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, $2100.00
15. Some Call It Evolution, 2021, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on canvas, 20 x 16 inches, $1600.00
16. Ground Paths, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayon on repurposed coffee bean bag, 9.5 x 5 inches, $300.00
17. Beanland, 2021, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on repurposed coffee bean bag, 9.5 x 5 inches, $300.00
18. Voyage I, 2023, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayon on repurposed coffee bean bag, 9.5 x 5 inches, $300.00
19. Voyage II, 2023, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayon on repurposed coffee bean bag, 9.5 x 5 inches, $300.00
20. Voyage III, 2023, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayon on repurposed coffee bean bag, 9.5 x 5 inches, $300.00
21. Caring for Nature, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayons, thread, found tree branch, wire, knitted wool on cardboard, 12 x 7.5 x 1 inches, $390.00
22. Small Lost Worlds IV, 2021, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayon on corrugated cardboard, 8 x 8 x 0.75 inches, $300.00
23. The Invisible Enemy, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on corrugated cardboard, 14 x 14 x 1 inches, $1100.00
24. Memories 2021, 2021, acrylic, acrylic pen, oil pastel, oil-based markers on corrugated cardboard, 14 x 14 x 1 inches, $1000.00
25. Origins, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayons, thread, electronic spare parts (capacitors) on corrugated cardboard, 19.5 x 7.75 x 1.75 inches, $700.00
26. Topographies of the Exploitation of Our Land I, 2021, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on corrugated cardboard, 14 x 14 x 1 inches, $1100.00
27. Map of a World That Could Not Adapt, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayons on corrugated cardboard, 14 x 14 x 1 inches, $1100.00
28. Finding the Courage to Change, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayons on corrugated cardboard, 14 x 14 x 1 inches, $1100.00
29. Ode to Coral, 2021, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on corrugated cardboard, 14 x 4 x 1.75 inches, $325.00
30. Impossible Metabolism (Icelandic Memories), 2021, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on corrugated cardboard, 32 x 21.5 inches, $3500.00
31. We Are All in This Network, 2021, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on corrugated cardboard, Diptych: 2 panels 11.7 x 4.1 x 1.1 inches, (each 11.7 x 10 x 1.1 inches), $620.00
32. Telling the Climate Crisis Tales from Ocean Topographies I, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on canvas, 20 x 16 inches, $1600.00
33. Apocalyptic Dreams, 2021, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on canvas, 10 x 12 inches, $600.00
34. Telling the Climate Crisis Tales from Ocean Topographies II, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble pen on canvas, 20 x 16 inches, $1600.00
35. (Spreading Until When), 2021, handmade commercial paper, acrylic, pan pastel, acrylic pen, zipper, found fabric, thread on corrugated cardboard, 15.2 x 15.2 x 1.25 inches, $1200.00
36. Geographies of a Lost World (Fairy Tales for Climate Crisis Times) I, 2021, pencil, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on corrugated cardboard, 14 x 14 x 1 inches, $1100.00
37. Geographies of a Lost World (Fairy Tales for Climate Crisis Times) II, 2021, pencil, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on corrugated cardboard, 14 x 14 x 1 inches, $1100.00
38. Geographies of a Lost World (Fairy Tales for Climate Crisis Times) III, 2021, pencil, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on corrugated cardboard, 14 x 14 x 1 inches, $1100.00
39. Your Interior, 2021, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, pan-pastel on corrugated cardboard, 23.5 x 41 inches, $4200.00
40. Finding the Lost Paths, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayons on corrugated cardboard, 15.6 x 10.2 x 1.5 inches, $900.00
41. Transformation, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayons on corrugated cardboard, 15.6 x 10.2 x 1.5 inches, $900.00
42. Do Not Let It Go Higher Than 1.5 C, 2022, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen, water-soluble crayons on corrugated cardboard, 15.6 x 10.2 x 1.5 inches, $900.00
43. Tree (Ego Death), 2023, acrylic, acrylic pen, ink pen on canvas, 12 x 6 inches, $475.00
Topographical Visions
I create my work in a state akin to meditation, contemplating the calamity of the human-made environmental and climate crisis.
Informed by my scientific background, I create topographies that evoke familiar images that can be thought of on a microscopic or macroscopic scale. Microscopically, the often biomorphic forms I create approximate organism cells, metabolic paths, or intracellular structures I have studied and analyzed in my research days.
Macroscopically, these forms are reminiscent of maps, geographies, and territories. Some allude to the explorations found on vintage maps, with itineraries to digging expeditions that exploit the vital and finite natural resources (water, fossil fuels, gemstones, etc.) of the terrain, or to the landscapes we might find in the ocean environments or even to our planet as a whole, in its constant struggle to survive, morphing and mutating under the endless pressure of human-induced exploitation and environmental disruption.
In search of new and more sustainable ways to produce my art, my use of corrugated cardboard and found canvases takes me further in the direction I believe we all need to go towards: halting our exponential environmental impact on the world.
I think much of the problem we humans have regarding the environmental and climate crisis is causes by our tendency to desire more: stuff, power, control…
I hope my work is a reminder to clear our minds and stop searching outside what we feel is missing. If we truly listen internally, our intuition will reveal we have all we need and we will then stop the disruption and destruction of the marvelous planet we live on and share.
I envision a reality in which we all dare to engage in individual and societal transformation.
Adriana G. Prat
Bio
Adriana G. Prat is an academically-trained scientist turned abstract artist and curator on a quest to inspire action for the environmental crisis.
Her early passion for nature in Argentina influenced her to study science, but after moving to the US, a more introspective lifestyle inspired her to become a fervent artist who pushes her practice using repurposed materials to reduce her contribution to the urgent crisis.
Adriana has exhibited at galleries, academic institutions, art centers, museums, and alternative spaces, in Argentina, and the US, mostly in the greater Boston area, and in galleries in Reykjavík, Iceland, and London, UK. She is a member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA) and the SoWa Artists Guild, among others.
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