An Endless Thing With No End In Sight: The Louisiana Pipeline
Eric Dallimore, Changing Landscapes Artist in Residence
Unveiling Saturday, January 8, 2-6pm
Press Street at Rampart Street
Refreshments will be served and we will have the Saints game on the radio.
During his residency at A Studio in the Woods Eric Dallimore (Denver, CO, November 9th - December 19th 2010) has been working on an installation piece, a living public sculpture in the form of a pipeline, not a metal pipe carrying oil, but instead a pipeline composed of entirely organic matter, housing a collection of seeds. The Pipeline stretches across the land, visually representing man’s destructive force of oil exploration on our Gulf coast, our wetlands and our forests. The pipeline is engineered to intentionally burst at the seams using the wind and heavy rains to release the seeds onto the ground below and the pipeline itself will be entirely composed of biodegradable and compostable materials to fertilize and germinate the seeds, raising new life from the saturated earth below.
Click HERE for Doug McCash’s video of the work on Nola.com.
The NOCCA Institute owns the Press Street property where the sculpture will be sited and they have generously agreed to allow the artist to install the work there for the duration of the project.
Dallimore uses tactile, hand-created methods to explore the possibilities of using creativity and current, available resources to address our ongoing ecological arrangement. Recently, as part of the “Art in Public Places” project commissioned by the Arts Council of New Orleans in collaboration with the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Dallimore created an outdoor sculpture comprised of materials salvaged from 29 homes throughout New Orleans, Louisiana (2008).
Eric Dallimore is a New Orleans native who received his BFA from Louisiana State University in 2004. Since then, he has run a darkroom in Denver, CO, and assisted several artists for public art works in Colorado, Louisiana, and California. Teaching is another passion for the young artist, reviving a photography program at Camp Highlander in Asheville, North Carolina in 2003, teaching as a guest sculptor in 2007 at The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, assisting at the Marble/Marble Symposium in Marble, Colorado in 2007/08; and most recently working with the Family Crisis Center in Denver, through Think 360 Arts organization in October of 2010. “Untitled #6209″ in New Orleans was Eric’s first public art piece, a sculpture which speaks of recreating our future through possibilities and local resources, rather than limitations. As an emerging artist, Eric continues to focus his sculpture work combining the areas of sustainability, conservation, ecology, architecture, and innovation. www.ericdallimore.com
Eric Dallimore is a Changing Landscapes Artist Resident at A Studio in the Woods. Changing Landscapes Residencies are supported in part by The National Endowment for the Arts. This program is supported by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council. The grant is administered through the Arts Council of New Orleans. A special thanks to The NOCCA Institute for use of the site.
