Detroit based environmental artist Michael McGillis lets each site dictate how he fills the space with his celebrated land art. Above and below, at the University of Oregon’s Overlook Field School, the decision was glass collected from the site and incandescent lighting.
It was painted plastic grocery bags tucked into 11 sites in Saint Flour, France for a project called Infiltrations.
In 2012, for Wilderness Drift in Broceliande, Brittany, France, the animals were plastic, wood and metal.
For Siegneurial Chandelier in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, the tools were wood, paint, wire and photo transparencies. There are explosions of color in most of his work, which he has installed all over the world.
Among his best known projects is Flow Line, a 250-metre long installation of willow and paint in Auvergne, France.
Michael McGillis has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan, and has done installations in Europe, Asia and across North America.
See more on his website, here.
Categories: environmental art
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Reblogged this on Robert Guerrero and commented:
Awesome intervention between nature and man. It is the collision of landscape and fabricated art. Great appreciation between the two.
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Oh, I adore this stuff. I want to go paint sticks now and “install” them all over the yard! The only tiny thing that bothers me is when the material isn’t so natural – like the painted plastic bags. It would be nice, like Goldsworthy, if they could just decompose into the environment. I love that line of red sticks in the bottom image. So cool looking.
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So beautiful ! What the Nature sometimes does itself 🙂
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Completely agree, well put.
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Thx
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sweet. Thanks for passing it on to us.
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Glad you enjoyed it.
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Reblogged this on albesmaria and commented:
Preciosistas intervenciones artísticas en la naturaleza y en la ciudad.
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Love this!
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Thanks for stopping, and I totally agree!
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Reblogged this on Picasso Plate.
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Incredible. I have an insatiable fondness for extraordinary land art, re: Goldsworthy, and Smithson, of course, and Patrick Dougherty, Richard Long, Chris Drury, and others… I hadn’t heard of Michael McGillis. Stunning work… Great post!!!!
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The thing I like best about blogging is what I learn, and I didn’t know a couple of those names. So I’m going looking when I have a moment. Thank you.
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Wouldn’t it be fascinating to experience these works in nature? So clever.
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The one made of willows in France, especially.
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Yes, definitely.
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I’ve had a “hard time” in the past appreciating installation art but Michael McGillis has totally won me over. THIS, I understand! Thank you for presenting this on your blog
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I know exactly what you mean about installation, but you’re right that McGillis does it differently (and sanely). Agree.
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Reblogged this on Decogara.
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Hi Decogara, I appreciate all your reblogs. Thank you
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So cool
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So agree!
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