Just 100 miles off the coast of New York City lies the Hudson Canyon, a vast underwater geological feature on the scale of the Grand Canyon. The Canyon’s biodiversity was first documented during the Arcturus Oceanographic Expedition in 1925. Artists and scientists from the Department of Tropical Research (DTR) of the New York Zoological Society […]
Public Works
UNNERVED 2020 – On Going
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
US Census Bureau, Maryland 2010, GSA Commission
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 […]
TRA, 2021
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
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 […]