STRAIGHT TALK
with Brandon Ballengée
(detail) Styx: Variation
Vl (2010). 50” x 20” x 10’.
Mixed media installation
with nine cleared and
stained Pacific treefrogs on
sculptural light-box.
Installed at Parco Arte
Vivente (PAV), Centro
D'Arte Contemporanea,
Torino, Italy. Summer
2010. Photograph by Valentina Bonomonte. Image
courtesy of the artist and
Nowhere Gallery, Milan.
Brandon Ballengée is an artist, biologist, and environmental activist concerned with a number
of ecological issues including the increasing deformities found in amphibian populations. His
own scientific research, published in journals such as the Journal of Experimental Zoology, serves
as the backbone of his artistic practice. Ballengée lives and works in New York, NY.
SAiA: In your artist statement you describe
your practice as pairing biological investigations
with ar F