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 […]
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NY LASER
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 […]
A Hard Rain’s A – Gonna Fall
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 […]
Basilica Conversation Series: Artists Mary Mattingly and Anita Glesta
For the fifth and final installment of the Basilica Conversation Series, artists Mary Mattingly and Anita Glesta speak about watersheds, cultivating ecological understanding, the role of art in imagining the future and more. Both Mattingly and Glesta have been working at Basilica Hudson during the month of October and there are many intersections between their […]
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 […]
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.
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.”
ArtW, WomenWeCreate, Interviews with Women Artists. 2020
Women We Create, 4/11/2020 Anita Glesta is a New York City-based multimedia artist best known for her installations in the public and alternative venues internationally. Listen to the interview here.
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 […]
Studio International Magazine, Interview with Anna McNay 2020
Studio International, 03/31/2020 Brooklyn-based artist Anita Glesta sends a video message from her temporary studio in upstate New York. “I am reading about, and working on, what it means when a foreign substance … enters the body, and the fragility of being human”. Read the full article here.
Intimate Transgressions: The Act of Doing
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 […]
Studio International Magazine, live interview about the Royal National Theater London, WATERSHED projection 2015
Studio International, 09/30/2015 The artist talks about the motivation behind her brightly colored projection of frenzied fish on to the National Theatre as part of the Totally Thames festival. Read the full article here.
WYBC Yale Radio artist interview 2015
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 […]
Anita Glesta “Guernica” | MOCAK
Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, 11/22/2012 The bombing of Guernica during the Civil War in 1937 became history thanks to a painting by Pablo Picasso. Anita Glesta, an American artist, recalls these events in her multimedia installation.
BOMB Talks, radio and video interview, Anita Glesta and Ellen Driscoll
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, […]
NYFA Talks – Whitney Curator Elisabeth Sussman Interviews Anita Glesta
Artist Anita Glesta is interviewed by Whitney Curator Elisabeth Sussman about her recent installation “PUTTI FOR SARA” and her other work at a NYFA sponsored evening in January 2010.