Painter turned Oceanic Activist

Short Biography
Contemporary artist
Shown galleries of her art work in museums in China, Italy,
Spain, Finland, Poland, Japan, Germany, Greece and
Monaco.
Raised in New Jersey
She has lived in Atlanta since 1970
Currently on the faculty of Georgia State University.
Works in paint, copper patina, and sculpture

Career as a Painter
Longobardi got her start as a painter (still does)
Her art features a swirling, surreal, dream-like landscape
Uses a lot of pastel shades
Sometimes abstract
Evokes a lot of emotion
"Surge"
Cyanotype with ink,
gouache, acrylic on
paper on panel
19" x 23"
2008
"Vortex"
Cyanotype with ink,
gouache, acrylic on paper
on panel
27" x 20"
2008
"Wish Granting Jewel Tree"
Cyanotype, gouache, acrylic,
pigment on paper mounted on
wood
27" x 22"
2007
"Birth of Modernism"
Oil, ink, gouache acrylic on paper
40" x 30"
2008
Drifters Project
In 2006, took up a short-lived residency in Hawaii
While hiking, she encountered a beach awash in garbage
The amount of stuff the ocean was vomiting out was extraordinary -
Longobardi
Lead to the Drifters Project in 2006
Environmental, research-based practice focusing on ocean plastic
excavations in a number of places, including the Greek island of
Kefalonia,
Plastic is a signifier of our time, Longobardi declares
She combs beaches and coastal caves, sometimes with a team of assistants, that
are littered with thousands of plastic items.
Typical day working
on the Drifters
Project
Collected on beaches across
the globe
Netting her catches
Longobardi brings in trash from the ocean with a net
All the trash accumulated in one spot!
Installations
Not only does removing the debris clean the site but it
provides raw material to recycle as art for installations
Her installations with recycled plastic art send a
message about our plastic/throw away culture
Negatively impacting our environment
Pam Longobardis
Consumption Drift
Web (Self-Proclaiming
Material Snare)
Longobardis Defective Flow Chart (House of
Cards), made from about 1,300 pieces of foam
plastic found in Mermaid Cave, Kefalonia, Greece.
Installations
Includes patina paintings with some exhibitions
Balances the installations for the viewer
Painting is the antidote to the installations, which are
emotionally draining. - Longobardi
Her large-scale copper paintings feature clouded
grounds that appear by turns primordial and celestial.
These copper paintings evoke the majesty of nature.
Similar to 19th-century Romantic painting, in which
nature is depicted as an overwhelming force.


Longobardis Anthropocene I
(Supernature), in oil, enamel,
acrylic and lacquer on copper with
patinas over wood.

Pam Longobardi
Sunken Garden
Plastic Bottles
Pam Longobardi
Sunken Gardens

Pam Longobardi
The Water Bottle Art
Project
In Summary
Longobardi uses captivating, interest arousing
installations
Effectively raises the publics awareness of a
plastic/garbage crisis
An issue we may not pay attention to if it was just a
paper/presentation on this issue
Reduce, reuse, recycle!
Youtube Clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ccPdRj0x8

Bibliography
http://www.pamlongobardi.com/
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/pam-
longobardi/
http://driftersproject.net/
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwart/7679.html
http://www.artsatl.com/2013/05/pam-longobardi/