Installation, Governors Island, New York, NY. Tree wraps knitted with plastic bags. 5 trees with an average of 75” circumference, up 10 to 12 feet were wrapped during the summer 2011 installation.
Isabelle Garbani - Knit for Trees
Artwork Description
Isabelle Garbani
Isabelle Garbani is an emerging artist who received an MFA in sculpture from the New York Academy of Art in 2004 and has since been exhibiting her work throughout the New York metropolitan area and the Northeast. Among her exhibitions are Arte! Beaux-Arts! Kunst! at Payne Gallery in PA, Figureworks Gallery in Brooklyn in 2007, the Third Annual Summer Exhibition at the New York Academy of Art in 2009, and Younger Than Moses at the Benrimon Gallery in New York City in 2010. She had her first solo exhibit in 2008 at the Earlville Opera House and her second in 2011 at her gallery, BoxHeart Gallery in Pittsburgh. Her work from the 2010 Brooklyn based show Single Fare was shown in the New York Times. She has recently completed the public installation Knit for Trees on Governors Island in New York City, and Forces of Nature for the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in Vermont. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Website: www.isabellegarbani.comAdditional Artwork
Gallery Exhibitions
Rush Arts Gallery + Resource Center
December 1-10 · Manhattan
Bill Hodges Gallery
December 2 -11 · Manhattan
Art at Bay
December 3 -18 · Staten Island
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos
December 7-February 1 · Bronx
Like the Spice
December 8 -18 · Brooklyn
Crossing Art
December 10-31 · Queens
