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"Cause & Effect" is my monthly artist interview on MentalContagion.com. The column addresses art that relates to/critiques/engages with the tensions between the human and natural environments.Ý Sarah PickeringSarah states, "My work explores the idea of imagined threat and response, and looks at fear and planning for the unexpected, merging fact and fiction, fantasy and reality. The images are a representation of society's coping mechanisms, which are often happening out of the public arena." Chris JordanChris Jordan is a Seattle Washington photographer whose images of the desolate remains of America's mass consumption have been featured in magazines such as Harpers , Art and Focus. In the series Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption, Chris sees aÝ"slow-motion apocalypse in progress ... its consistent feature is a staggering complexity." Kim AbelesKim Abeles is an artist who crosses disciplines and media to explore and map the urban environment and chronicle broad social issues. The Smog Collector series brought her work to national and international attention in the art world, and mainstream sources such as Newsweek and Dan Rather. Shawn McNultyShawn McNulty is an active contemporary painter in the Minnesota art scene. He defines his style as "the idea of recognizable shapes and structures within an irrational environment with emphasis on form, color, and composition." |