Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas Panels, 72 x 96 inches
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Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia UNNERVED 2022
Installation in Federation Square Melbourne in “The Atrium” and on the face of the ACMI, Australian Centre of the Moving Image Sept/Oct 2022. This work was created during a fellowship at the fEEL Lab at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. UNNERVED premiered in Melbourne, Australia during the “Big Anxiety Festival Sept/Oct […]
THE ABSTRACT NAKEDNESS OF BEING NOTHING BUT HUMAN (FOR HANNAH), 2024
Mixed Media on Canvas Panels, 72 x 96 inches
Watershed 2013 – ongoing
Glesta began her project WATERSHED when she was invited to do work through the video art organization ARTPORT_Making Waves and the United Nations during the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference in 2009. Like many of her projects, she engaged in research to learn more about the topic. Through beautiful and sometimes lyrical imagery, her multi-channel video […]
Watershed Venice 2022
WATERSHED is a large scale public art project that has moved around the world. It is a projection onto a highly visible site and its mission is to catalyze conversation about climate change and infrastructure issues that are critical.
MONKEY MIND 2022
MONKEY MIND 2022 refers to the state of our minds when it often wanders into “dark places” or according to Buddhist principles when our mind is unsettled, restless or confused. The brain in the animated video floats from its place in the head and “mindlessly” moves into the belly to meet its scrambled and rambling […]
Watershed Parrish Art Museum 2020
WATERSHED is a large scale public art project that has moved around the world. It is a projection onto a highly visible site and its mission is to catalyze conversation about climate change and infrastructure issues that are critical to areas like Red Hook, a Watershed area and to environmental issues such as climate change, flooding and, brownfields.
UNNERVED 2021
UNNERVED 2021, Hand drawn animation suggesting the vulnerable internal world of our autonomic nervous system and the fragile neurotransmitters that journey from states of anxiety to states of calm. The UNNERVED project began as part of the fellowship at the fEEL Lab at UNSW School of Art, Design and Architecture in 2020. UNNERVED was created […]
The Big Anxiety: taking care of mental health in times of crisis
An essay that I wrote about my investigation has recently been published in the book “The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis”, published by Bloomsbury (edited by Jill Bennett).
Article in The Age, Melbourne, Australia
As Anita began painting a giant heart, her own was quietly breaking It took a life-threatening experience for Anita Glesta to understand that her heart was broken. The Australian artist was chatting with some art dealers at a Christmas party in New York, where she lives, when she “started to feel like I had this […]
INFECTION 2020
The Covid Series: 2020-2021 A series of animations I created during Covid. Bats and droplets are among the words and visuals that reference the early onset of the pandemic when so little was known as the world shut down in fear and terror
In the Sum of the Parts There Are Only the Parts 2018
Multi mediaDimensions variable IN THE SUM OF THE PARTS THERE ARE ONLY THE PARTS (from Wallace Stevens’ poem “On the Road Home”) addresses the shared commonality of our internal organ systems so seldom considered. This multi channel and multi media work, began as a response to a cardiac event that I experienced two years ago. […]
DROPLET. 2020
The Covid Series: 2020-2021 A series of animations I created during Covid. Bats and droplets are among the words and visuals that reference the early onset of the pandemic when so little was known as the world shut down in fear and terror
Watershed, Venice 2022
During the Venice Biennale 2022 WATERSHED was projected along a canal in a prominent location on the face of the Palazzina Canonica. The video was presented by Artport_making waves WE ARE OCEAN in collaboration with CNR-ISMAR during their one week programming of workshops and events around the theme of Marine life, our oceans.
Australian works
Lenticular Lens 1998 “Wynyard Park” was commissioned by the city of Sydney in 1998. This work was created as a temporary signage/sculptural work for a city park and was sited at a bus stop at the entrance to the park.The technology is called “lenticular lens” and involves two or three images on a single screen. […]
US Census Bureau
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.
Guernica/Gernika 2006-2013
GUERNICA/GERNIKA explores and memorializes the tragedy of September 11, 2001 through testimonies of the remaining few survivors of the Gernika bombing, sculptural pieces, and video art.
CORONA BUTTERFLY, TSUNAMI LUNG 2020
The Covid Series: 2020-2021 A series of animations I created during Covid. Bats and droplets are among the words and visuals that reference the early onset of the pandemic when so little was known as the world shut down in fear and terror
Putti for Sara 2012
PUTTI FOR SARA is a multi channel video in which bodies, in highly saturated colors, ascend through space as though they are floating in the ether.
Big Anxiety Festival, 2022
UNNERVED will appear on the face of the Museum of the Moving Image in Federal Square, Melbourne for the month of October 2022 as part of a festival called “The Big Anxiety.”
Schillinger and the Dancer, White Box, NYC 2015
Commissioned by WhiteBOX and Fiona Gunn, Schillinger and the Dancer referenced the story was inspired by SS Oberscharführer Josef Schillinger, who was shot and killed by a young woman, possibly a dancer, in the undressing room of the Birkenau camp gas chamber on October 23, 1943. An essay by historian Kirsty Chatwood explores a version […]
Watershed Red Hook Brooklyn 2017
WATERSHED is a large scale public art project that has moved around the world. It is a projection onto a highly visible site and its mission is to catalyze conversation about climate change and infrastructure issues that are critical to areas like Red Hook, a Watershed area and to environmental issues such as climate change, flooding and, brownfields.
SKIN DEEP 2020
Publications
Five Women Artists Who Shaped Public Art, 2022 Article in The Age, Melbourne, Australia, 2022 Published in the book “The Big Anxiety: Taking Care of Mental Health in Times of Crisis”, 2022, Published by Bloomsbury (edited by Jill Bennett). A personal message: Anita Glesta – Studio International “I am reading about, and working on, what […]
TONGUE ON FIRE 2018
Watershed Ellis Island 2016
WATERSHED was installed as an immersive video projection on the floor of the lobby of the Customs House at Ellis Island in April 2016. The work was commissioned by Generation Investment Management, a London- based investment firm which focuses on the full integration of sustainability analysis into investment decision making.
WATERSHED National Theater London 2015
WATERSHED is a large scale public art project that has moved around the world. It is a projection onto a highly visible site and its mission is to catalyze conversation about climate change and infrastructure issues that are critical to areas like Red Hook, a Watershed area and to environmental issues such as climate change, flooding and, brownfields.
Watershed animation
CARDIAC HARMONIUM 2018
My project CARDIAC HARMONIUM explores and transmits a wide range of issues that we all experience. In so many ways, humans are enslaved by the corporeal state we inhabit. In our current dialogue in which questions about our identity have become increasingly paramount, I am interested in deconstructing our physical constructs to point attention to […]
Cycle interrupted 2009
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.
HEART (triptych)
Watershed Basilica
WATERSHED is a large scale public art project that has moved around the world. It is a projection onto a highly visible site and its mission is to catalyze conversation about climate change and infrastructure issues that are critical.
Guernica Project 2006-2013
Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow White Box New York
Five Women Artists Who Shaped Public Art
In recognition of the many talented women who have shaped public art and broken barriers in the art field, the General Services Administration (GSA) is excited to highlight five artists in the GSA Fine Arts Collection during Women’s History Month! In January 2022, GSA announced it was updating provisions of its Art in Architecture program, which commissions art […]
Watershed London
WATERSHED is a large scale public art project that has moved around the world. It is a projection onto a highly visible site and its mission is to catalyze conversation about climate change and infrastructure issues that are critical.
SPIN 2017
Revolving doors are an essential aspect of city life, providing a way for a flow of pedestrians to enter and exit skyscrapers, retail stores, and transit hubs. They are iconic architectural elements, and represent the moment of transition – from exterior to interior, from one environment to another, from the journey to the destination. They […]