Blane De St. Croix
FIRE ….
October 30 – December 5, 2009

Landscape Section: Marsh (detail)
Mixed media, dimensions variable, 2009

FIRE …. October 30 – December 5, 2009

Blane De St. Croix works in sculpture, drawing and installation. His work articulates humankind’s desire to take command over the earth -- alluding to conflicts with ecology, politics and ourselves. The work also reveals conflicts with nature, while asking us to reflect on our precarious relationship with our surroundings.  De St. Croix’s work draws from painting and sculpture’s historical use of the landscape as subject, entering it into the contemporary consciousness of the conflicted landscape; certainly paying homage to land artists such as Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer and the painter Anselm Kiefer.

This exhibit will consist of both sculpture and drawings.  Included will be works created in the past few years exploring the forest fire as subject and new work created especially for the gallery reflecting upon the subliminal landscape imagery of the Florida Everglades and how it ties into encroachment, conservation and restoration.

Blane De St. Croix was born in Boston, Massachusetts and educated at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan (M.F.A. - Sculpture) and Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts (B.F.A. - Sculpture with distinction). Previously De St. Croix was a visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College, Whittier, California. Currently he is an Associate Professor at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. He lives and works in both South Florida and Brooklyn, New York.