RIP Dodo: After S. Edwards, 1808/2023
Artist cut and burnt hand-colored copperplate engraving, ashes, and etched funerary urn
15.5 x 12.5 X 1 1/8 in.
RIP Auroch: After David Kandel, 1592/2017
Artist cut and burnt woodcut letterpress on hand-laid paper, ashes, and etched funerary urn
19.25 x 14.75 x 1 3/8 in.
RIP Quagga: After Dr. V. Kirn I. Berg, 1844/2023
Artist cut and burnt hand-colored copperplate engraving, ashes, and etched funerary urn
13.5 x 16 x 7/8 in.
RIP Zanzibar Leopard: After Rich Buckler & Frank Giacoia, 1973/2023
Artist cut and burnt bronze age comic book cover, ashes, and etched funerary urn
16 x 12.75 x 3/4 in.
Passenger Pigeon: After Ruthven Deane, 1906/2023
Artist cut and burnt chromolithograph, ashes, and etched funerary urn
13.5 x 11.5 x 1/2 in.
RIP Spix’s Macaw: After Tyler Yicker, 2011/2023
Artist cut and burnt original movie theatre offset lithograph, ashes, and etched funerary urn
42.5 x 29.5 x 1 in.
RIP Oaxaca Treefrog and Blue-Eyed Aquatic Treefrog: After David M. Dennis, 2001/2018
Artist cut and burnt SSAR Benefit Folio chromolithograph, ashes and etched funerary urn
15.25 x 12.25 x 3/4 in.
RIP Cumbrian Silver-Studded Blue Butterfly: After William Lizars, 1835/2017
Artist cut and burnt hand-colored copper engraving, ashes, and etched funerary urn
11 1/8 x 8 5/8 x 1.25 in.
Brandon Ballengée
Lives and works in Louisiana, USA
ARTIST BIO
Brandon Ballengée (b. 1974, Arnaudville, Louisiana; lives in Arnaudville) is an artist, biologist, and environmental activist. Since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Ballengée has focused his artistic practice on Gulf of Mexico ecologies, which represents an extension of his ecological fieldwork and laboratory research. He is an adjunct professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Tulane University, New Orleans. In 2016, Ballengée and his wife, Aurore Ballengée, founded the Atelier de la Nature, an eco-educational campus, sculpture garden, and nature reserve.
Ballengée has had solo exhibitions at the CAIRN Centre d’art, Digne-les-Bains, France (2022); Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, Louisiana (2021); University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie (2016); Museum Het Nieuwe Domein, Sittard, Netherlands (2014); Château de Chamarande, Essonne, France (2013); and the Royal Institution of Great Britian, London. Ballengée is the recipient of awards and fellowships for his art and research including the COAL Awards Special Jury Prize (2022); a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021); Creative Capital Award (2019); Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian American Art Museum (2017); a National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (2015, 2016); and a Conservation Leadership Award and Fellowship from the National Audubon Society’s TogetherGreen Program (2011). He was named a Grist 50 Emerging Environmental Leader (2020). He holds a PhD in transdisciplinary art and biology from Plymouth University, England, in association with the Hochschule für Gestaltung, Zurich (2014).
