Anita

AQUA COSMOS: The Hudson Canyon

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Just 100 miles off New York City lies the Hudson Canyon, a vast underwater trench deeper than the Grand Canyon. First brought to light during the 1925 Arcturus expedition, the canyon revealed extraordinary biodiversity off the coasts of New York and New Jersey. Alongside scientists, women artists played a crucial yet overlooked role in the voyage, translating […]

UNNERVED 2020 – On Going

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UNNERVED was developed through the fEEL Lab Fellowship at the University of New South Wales. Drawing on neuroscience research, the work visualizes the body’s stress responses—mapping anxiety as color, motion, and sound. Through moving image and immersive projection, UNNERVED translates invisible states of the nervous system into shared sensory experiences. Audiences were invited to reflect […]

NY LASER

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a Leonardo/ISAST In-Person Rendezvous Event Sunday, March 17, 2024 – 3:00-6:00PM ET Listen and watch the full talk here: The NY LASER program is a series of lectures and presentations on art, science, and technology-related projects and an affiliate of Leonardo/International Society for the Arts, Science and Technology (ISAST). Ellen K. Levy, PhD, artist, writer, and co-editor […]

Basilica Multi Media Installation: A GARDEN OF OUR DISCONTENT

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“Anita Glesta’s hand-drawn animation series, A GARDEN OF OUR DISCONTENT: Anxiety and Wellbeingin Times of Crisis features a compilation of moving image work and video installation exploring how our body’s nuanced nervous system is affected by stress. Based on scientific research the artist conducted in fellowship with The ARC Laureate Felt Experience & Empathy Lab, UNSW Sydney, Au, […]

Unnerved – Chapter 14

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Chapter 14UnnervedAnita Glesta I’m not wrong am I? To seek the pumping heart in the head, little rose on fire…( – excerpt from the poem, ‘Tongue on Fire’, developed by Abigail Wender in response to AnitaGlesta’s work, Unnerved (2021)). Fig. 14.1. Untitled, oil on canvas, 48 inches x 72 inches. Anita Glesta, 2017. My father […]

A Hard Rain’s A – Gonna Fall

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April 21 – June 15, 2023 Curated by Lara Pan Opening Reception: April 21, 5:30-7:30 pm This exhibition centers on eleven artists who each explore various realms and topics in ecological disaster to reexamine the possibilities of survival (after an ecological catastrophe) in a singular way using science to create art and art to explain […]

CYCLE INTERRUPTED, 2009, ARTPORT_Making Waves and the United Nations for the 2009 Copenhagen 15 Conference

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CYCLE INTERRUPTED is a color-saturated moving image video commissioned through the video curatorial group ARTPORT_Making Waves and the United Nations for the 2009 Copenhagen 15 Conference. The commission asked for the content of this work to address how women in the third world are affected by global warming. I chose to address this subject using […]

BIRDS 2018

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BIRD is a longer video that ironically juxtaposes flight birds with birds that are often “caged”. The triptych of various birds contains unexpected images such as a carniverous Kingfisher, bats unfurling their wings and a love scene between rosellas all of which intends to make the viewer think about the life of creatures that live […]

WATERSHED 2012

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WATERSHED video installed at the following venues: “The Basilica Hudson”, 2023, The Parrish Art Museum, 2020, Red Hook, Bklyn, 2017, Royal National Theater, 2015, Venice Biennale, with Artport_Making Waves, 2022.

Intimate Transgressions: The Act of Doing

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OCTOBER 1, 2015 Panel at the Brooklyn Museum Watch the Panel here. PARTICIPANTS: Anita Glesta, Fion Gunn, Eleanor Heartney, Shirin Neshat, Luisa Valenzuela, Marjorie Martay A discussion of art’s role in raising awareness of war, genocide, rape, and sexual violence, as well as the ways that art is used as a tool for transformation in the […]

WYBC Yale Radio artist interview 2015

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WYBC Yale Radio, 08/10/2015 Artist, author, and lecturer Brainard Carey interview Anita Gelsta whose project WATERSHED is a public art projection dealing with Climate Change that will be projected on the face of the National Theater on the Thames as part of the Totally Thames Festival in September 2015. She is also creating a work as part […]

US Census Bureau, Maryland 2010, GSA Commission

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The U.S. General Services Admission Art in Architecture Program commissioned this integrated landscape work to celebrate the work of the Census Bureau while also providing a simulating outdoor environment for employees and visitors. Through numerical symbols, words, images, and forms that invite interaction, articulating our human histories was my primary concern when creating this work […]

BOMB Talks, radio and video interview, Anita Glesta and Ellen Driscoll 

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5/12/2010 Anita Glesta’s Gernika/Guernica, shown in Lower Manhattan in Spring 2007, juxtaposed the provocative abstraction of Picasso’s infamous painting with survivor accounts of the 1937 bombing of a Basque village. Ellen Driscoll’s sculpture Revenant, a bridge made from hundreds of number 2 plastic bottles, was recently installed at the Nippon Ginko Bank in Hiroshima, Japan, […]

TRA, 2021

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TRA is an “interactive” sculpture at Parco Sculture del Chianti. It consists of two distinct parts divided by a small canyon; each of these reclining sculptures (or “platforms”) can be reached by a short, steep descent. Lying on one of the seats, the visitor finds himself in an unusual position in which he can comfortably […]

Yurong Water Gardens, Sydney Australia, 2000

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One of Anita Glesta’s notable public works is located in Cook and Phillip Park, a central urban space in Sydney, Australia. Commissioned in collaboration with landscape architects Spackman & Mossop, Glesta designed a terraced water garden using indigenous sandstone. This public park opened in January 2000 as part of the City of Sydney’s initiative to […]