“If you want to make a change in the world, start in your own backyard and listen to the plants under your feet.”
– Serena Kovalosky
THE ECO-GARDEN
Serena Kovalosky is a sculptor and installation artist whose work is rooted in the organic form and natural materials.
Her Eco-Garden Project began as a curious exploration by allowing the weeds in her vegetable garden to grow, just to see what they would become….
That curiosity expanded to the backyard and soon became a multi-year ecological research and interdisciplinary art project.
Over 70 species of plants have been discovered so far, each one inspiring sculptural works of art with a socially-engaged component….
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PROJECTS & INSTALLATIONS
The botanical discoveries in Serena Kovalosky’s Eco-Garden provide the foundation and the raw materials for her current interdisciplinary and socially-engaged art practice.
Human/nature relationships and insights into the coexistance between humans are presented through sculptures, installations and storytelling.
Current Project:
Moving Mountains: The Mustard Seed Project (In-Progress 2024)
A dried mustard “tree” harvested from Serena Kovalosky’s Eco-Garden will be the foundation for “Moving Mountains: The Mustard Seed Project.”
The interdisciplinary project will explore the symbolism of the mustard seed for restoring faith in our ability as individuals and communities to achieve the impossible dream of peaceful coexistence, with nature and each other.
Kovalosky will create a sculpture as the 2024 artist-in-residence at the Slate Valley Museum in Granville, NY. An installation will be co-created by visitors to the museum during the artist’s open studio days.
Serena’s Open Studio Days at the Museum:
May – December 2024
Dates & Times to be announced.
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ARTWORK PORTFOLIO
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ABOUT
Serena Kovalosky’s art is rooted in the organic form and natural materials with an ecological ethos that explores how the natural world can inform our comprehension of the interrelatedness of all things, providing balance and grounding in an era of global change while stimulating an environmental reverence.
Kovalosky was awarded a $10,000 New York State Rural & Traditional Arts Fellowship in 2023 for The White Mulberry Project/A River Runs Through It. The interdisciplinary project and exhibition is part of The Eco-Garden Project, a socially engaged practice which offers a reconnection with “nature in our backyard” at the intersection of art, science and history interpreted through sculpture, wildcrafting, storytelling and the culinary arts. The roots of the project began in 2003 with The Seed that Grows, a labyrinth installation/Three Sisters planting project in Montreal and upstate New York.
Serena Kovalosky is the co-founder of the Open Studios of Washington County Biennial and the Creative Warriors artist co-mentoring group. She curated the Slate as Muse National Art Exhibition at the Slate Valley Museum. As the founder and creative force behind Artful Vagabond Productions, Kovalosky explores the artist’s role in contemporary society through artist interviews, film and excerpts from her own artist’s journal.
Kovalosky’s work and projects have been featured in Adirondack Life, Proctor’s The Collaborative, Artscope and Professional Artist. She has appeared on Joe Donahue’s Roundable, CBC Radio-Canada, Canada’s Life Channel, Quebec’s Canal Vie and the BBC.
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