M. Annenberg
M. Annenberg · Source: New York Artists Circle · Rights retained by the original rights holders
- Medium
- Acrylic Paint, Found Objects, Plastics
- Practice
- Installation, Painting, Sculpture
M. Annenberg is a Conceptual artist. Her paintings, sculptures, installations, and videos focus on under-reported stories in American media, concentrating on scientific studies and global warming. Full biography
Biography
M. Annenberg is a Conceptual artist. Her paintings, sculptures, installations, and videos focus on under-reported stories in American media, concentrating on scientific studies and global warming.
When she was represented by Flomenhaft Gallery, she organized a panel there with Dr. Gavin Schmidt, Director of NASA, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, entitled, Art, Activism and Global Warming. She co-curated an exhibit with Eleanor Flomenhaft, entitled EARTH SOS, at Flomenhaft Gallery. Dr. James Hansen former Director, NASA, GISS, was the guest speaker.
Princeton University's Bernstein Gallery hosted a lecture that Annenberg gave in conjunction with her one artist exhibit, News/ Not News. She has been a guest panelist at the Bruce High-Quality Foundation University, Artists Talk on Art, NYC, Soho House, and the UN Program of the Women's Caucus for Art.
Annenberg's paintings are in the permanent collections of museums in Lithuania, Israel, England, and the USA. The BBC included her artwork in the documentary, The Private Life of a Masterpiece:" The Third of May". She was named by Origin Magazine as one of America's Top 100 Creatives in 2015.
Annenberg’s recent artwork deconstructs the reporting of four major climate studies –The National Climate Assessment, the Paris Climate Treaty, the UN’s 5th IPCC Report, and the Hindu Kush Himalayan Assessment.
Artist statement
In an era of fake news - the actual problem is that real news, especially climate-related news, is being suppressed by major media companies (verified by Public Citizen's report Storm of Silence).
We are living through a new type of battle - attacked by misinformation and the omission of information. This is a new kind of propaganda, that I have labeled, inverse propaganda. What we don't know can hurt us. We are in the fight of our lives.
There is an ongoing ferocious war on science and scientists, not seen since the inquisition of Galileo. In this sense, Annenberg’s installations and paintings fall into the genre of anti-war art.
Annenberg's activism lies in combining art and journalism - comparing the importance of climate studies by major scientific organizations - and how they are or are not reported. Her mixed media and conceptual artworks ironically employ the tools of investigative journalism to critique the absence of the presence of critically important news stories.
