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press release - Shinji Turner-Yamamoto wins 2011 ArtPrize International Juried Award
video - Reed Kroloff speaks about SiTE:LAB, awarded the Outstanding Venue Award
related video - DISAPPEARANCES, produced by Contemporary Arts Center
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DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey
2011
a large-scale site-specific installation created with fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt limestone, and rainwater
site:
SiTE:Lab + University of Michigan School of Art & Design, 2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
curator: Paul Amenta
exhibition coordinator: Tom Clinton
coordinator: Terry Frixen
special thanks:
Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest
Michigan Natural Storage / Grand Rapids Gypsum Mine
high-resolution jpegs:
DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey
2011
fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt limestone, and rainwater
8000 square feet
2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey
2011
fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt limestone, and rainwater
8000 square feet
2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey
2011
fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt limestone, and rainwater
8000 square feet
2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey
2011
fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt limestone, and rainwater
8000 square feet
2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey
2011
fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt limestone, and rainwater
8000 square feet
2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey
2011
fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt limestone, and rainwater
8000 square feet
2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey
2011
fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt limestone, and rainwater
8000 square feet
2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey
2011
fossils: coral, gypsum, burnt limestone, and rainwater
8000 square feet
2 East Fulton Street, 2nd floor, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey
2011
work-in-progress
photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
DISAPPEARANCES - an eternal journey
2011
work-in-progress
photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
Gypsum mine, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
photo credit: James Morse
Global Tree Project: HANGING GARDEN
2010
dead and live white birches
12 m (40 feet) tall
19th century Holy Cross Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (National Register of Historic Places)
photo credit: Shinji Turner-Yamamoto
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Graham, Patricia J. "Compassion, Craft and Connectedness," Orientations Magazine, may 2011.
Turner-Yamamoto, Shinji. CSPA - The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, issue five 2011.
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