Bonny Leibowitz
Statements for each body of work can be found with accompanying portfolios under "Work".

Review for Adventures in Plunderland on Art Spiel, written by Emma Ahmad 

Artist Statement

My site-specific installations operate as shifting memories of landscapes altered by human intervention and environmental change. Through fragmented sculptures and photography, I explore the physical and cultural entanglements between industry and ecology.

The work draws from concepts of Post-Naturalism — a perspective that questions the objectification of nature as pristine and separate from humans.

During travels across Texas, I photograph landscapes affected by tornadoes, drought, and flooding. The photographs are printed onto wall-sized paper and collaged into three-dimensional structures and images that peel away from walls and collapse to the floor. I also cull and gather fallen tree limbs and roots from roadsides and land clearings, along with mangled metals and plastics from dumps and demolition sites.   

As these fragments, severed from their origins, accumulate, I create hybrid landscapes where distinctions between the natural and manufactured, the past and present, and reality and representation become increasingly enmeshed.

The installations address the displacement, destruction, and abandonment of the natural world, and the negotiation between environmental costs and conflicting human desires. They are fleeting, elegiac monuments to trees, oceans, land, and sky. 

As ecosystems degrade and transform, nature emerges as memory—unsettled, shifting, and continually in flux.