Envisioning Maps, a show from 2008 better late than never

Envisioning Maps was an exhibition at Hebrew Union College in 2008 that investigated the concept of mapping. The maps explore history, getting lost, declaring location, word maps. Per the press info 'the show explores the desire to know wehre one is in a world where we don't know where we are going'.















Venice Eruv, Ben Schacter, 2007

Budapest/Soweto, William Kentridge


















For more information: http://www.huc.edu/museums/ny/exhibits/08/maps/

Kathryn Rodrigues: A different view

From pictograms to mercator maps on wood, her work to personal explorations of maps.

Mercator Map, 2006, mixed media

Connection from the Cartobibliography series, 2004

Pronoid Mapping- the belief that the world is conspiring to help you

Artists Agnes Poientin-Navarre and Theresa Rahman worked with a artists to consider the concept of 'Pronoia' - the belief that the world is conspiring to help you. Through a series of workshops the group identified key words, symbols and pictograms that define their personal pronoid journeys.

http://www.iniva.org/learning/creative_mapping/year_3_off_the_map/pronoid_mapping

Noriko Ambe, betweeen topography and emotion

Lands of Emptiness 2008

"So to speak, I have been mapping the mysterious land between physical and emotional geography. I want to attain something sublime. The entrance of the way is detail. The detail is the key point of nature, and we are part of nature," as stated by Noriko Ambe on her website at http://www.norikoambe.com/index.html.




Diaolgue with a Tree, 2006

Leila Daw...maps in various forms.

Leila uses maps in installations and painitngs. Her sea chart benches make direct references to offshore topography of New England, however they are still very functional. And her paintings make references to natural spaces. You can see more of her work at http://web.mac.com/leiladaw/iWeb/Site/Leila%20Daw.html.



Anchorage

Could have been a great city

Off the Map...series of exhibitions 2009

Off the Map...An ongoing series of map related exhibitions explores how we can begin to map information often neglected by traditional cartographic maps - the social, emotional and political worlds we inhabit. Professional artists and groups explore information mapping and the deconstruction and reassembly of cartographic maps as part of the Iniva Creative Mapping project. http://www.iniva.org/exhibitions_projects/2009/off_the_map_exhibitions

Matthew Cusick, Map Paintings

Katy's Wave, 2008

Non Plus, 2007

Geronimo detail, 2007

I think I have seen his work before, however it’s definitely worth a mention, the detail in the images are amazing. Every area of a map becomes a brushstroke. Visit Matthew Cusick at http://www.mattcusick.com/.

Ctril-N projects / Anatomy of a City

III: Partir 2008

Exploring the traces of forgotten metropolitan systems artist Olivier Ruellet traces the railways or runways without their prescribed visual imagery we encounter on a daily basis. To see more of his work go here: http://www.ctrl-n.net/en .

Emma McNally: A wisp, a line, a strategy,

Fields, charts, soundings, 2008

C5', 2007

Is it an aerial view of a battleground? Or is the mapping of constellation in motion? Perhaps she is mapping the sound coming from a distant source. Emma's work is both mathematical and methodical yet has a tinge of vastness and chaos. To see more work:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emmamcnally/show/

Milena Bonilla...mapping from Colombia

Lugares Comunes: bocetos para Jardín, 2004

Transitory Map Project, 2008

Milena Bonilla, her work is gentle but yet critical of those moments of travel, distance, rupture and healing. Find out more at: http://www.milenabonilla.com/