Community Art
AND PUBLIC ART PROJECTS.
The Developer’s Midnight Fantasy [DMF]
DMF is a cross disciplinary, collaborative community art installation & performance with original music, dance, poetry art & neuroscience. DMF invites visitors to imagine a clear-cutting of a native forest to construct more buildings & parking lots. The ongoing destruction of forests is an under-recognized problem. This project seeks to make us think about development not just in the abstract but here in our own backyard.
Sponsored by the Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Chief Diversity Officer. In partnership with the Zuccaire Gallery. Friends of the Ashley Schiff Preserve Scholarship.
Music by Tommy Wu & Daniel Cohen
Poetry by Michelle Whittaker
Dance Ensemble by Amy Yopp Sullivan
Costumes by Marta Baumiller
Neuroscience by Arianna Maffai
Hi Digger, 2021 — Cut and Blow — They trimmed our beautiful trees; no warning — too much sky. Mercury in retrograde.
Photo by Cliff BaldwinThe woods are a
buried treasure.
Goat + flute, Video still, 2021
The Ashley Schiff forest is a preserve in name only. Legislation to designate the preserve a state park has not been passed. So Ashley Schiff has no offical protection.
The ultimate goal of the project is for the Ashley Schiff Preserve to be granted permanent preservation status to ensure that future generations of Stony Brook’s human, floral and faunal communities continue to benefit from this underutilized resourse. University students, faculty, staff and visitors will be invited to write letters and hopes on a collective tree near the enterance of Ashley Schiff on Circle Drive to engage in this cross-disciplinary and collaborative, community event.
Video still, 2021
Wrens survey a chainsaw’s blades.
Video still, 2021
Home wrecker, Backhoe, Gold Digger or Trespasser, like a pair of orange
plastic gloves
Slicing the cobalt sky into a thousand new homes.
Video still, 2021
Video still, 2021
MUSICIANS:
︎YAKOV BODEK (Violin)
︎DANIEL COHEN (Mandolin)
︎JIANAN AMBER DONG (Flute)
︎HANNAH KIRBY (Bassoon)
︎NICK LYONS (Trombone)
︎MATTHEW MILLER (Cello)
︎ATHENA WILKINSON (Violin)
Video still, 2021
Machine, 2021
The forest doesn’t need makeup like me.
Community wall, 2021
Should we reconstruct the half light?
Video still, 2021
The oak trees are a
social network.
Porta potty, 2021
A Wishful Gesture is a peaceful
The Monarch told me, 2020. Milkweed seeds.
The Monarch told me, 2020. Milkweed seed alphabet bombs & a poem.
Art
ANNEMARIE WAUGH IS AN ARTIST & EDUCATOR WHOSE WORK INCLUDES PAINTING, DRAWING, VIDEO, POETRY, SOUND,
Natural Selection, 2020, mixed media, 31 x 30 inches (78.7 x 76.2 cm)
Torn, 2021, water-based mixed media on paper, 4 x 6 inches (10.6 x 15.24 cm)
BSO, Beautiful Sweet Obsession, 2021, Installation view, Dum Dums, food coloring, chocolate syrup, whipped cream
Lady in waiting, 2021, water-based mixed media on paper, 4 x 6 inches (10.6 x 15.24 cm)
Buried treasure, 2021, Holly berries, house paint, concrete, 5 x 10 inches (12.7 x 25.4 cm)
And snail, moth & bat, 2021, plastic, house paint, on paper, 15.5 x 23 (39.37 x 58.42 cm)
Head in the clouds, 2021, pencil on paper, 9 x 12 inches (22.86 x 30.48 cm)
The devil is in the defaults, 2022, water-based mixed media on paper, 23 x 30 inches (58.42 x 76.2 cm)
Pleaser, teaser, orange juice squeezer, 2018, water-based mixed media on paper, 9 x 12 inches (22.86 x 30.48 cm)
Going towards a place of play, 2021, water-based mixed media on canvas. 4 x 6 feet (121.92 x 182.88 cm)
Broken, 2021, clay. 3 x 8 inches (7.62 x 20.32 cm)
Enamoured by her Scratchers, 2020, water-based mixed media on paper with nail decals, 8 x 8 inches (20.32 x 20.32 cm)
– Vanishing honey bee, 2015, graphite on paper, 109 x 42 inches (276.86 x 106.68 c
Homewrecker, 2021, caution tape, flagging tape, bark, plastic on tarp, 94.5 x 94.5 inches (240.3 x 240.3 cm)
The flower power Association, 2020, garden soil on handmade paper, 6 x 8 inches (15.24 x 20.32 cm)
Going pear-shaped, 2021, graphite on vellum, 9 x 12 inches (22.86 x 30.48 cm)
Mother, 2021, water-based mixed media on canvas, 30 x 48 inches (76.2 x 121.92 cm)
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Infinity (That’s how much I love you) 2015, acrylic and pencil on paper, 9 x 16 inches (22.86 x 40.64 cm)
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Barking mad, 2021, mixed media on bark, 7 x 9 inches (17.78 x 22.86 cm)
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Infinity (That’s how much I love you) 2015, acrylic and pencil on paper, 9 x 16 inches (22.86 x 40.64 cm)
Barking mad, 2021, mixed media on bark, 7 x 9 inches (17.78 x 22.86 cm)
All of a flutter, 2016, water-based mixed media on paper, 9 x 12 inches (22.86 x 30.48 cm)
Forgetting, 2021, water-based mixed media on canvas, 30 x 48 inches (76.2 x 121.92 cm)
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The American dream teathered to tooth decay, 2020, chocolate syrup on paper, 23 x 30 inches (58.42 x 76.2 cm)
The American dream teathered to tooth decay, 2020, chocolate syrup on paper, 23 x 30 inches (58.42 x 76.2 cm)
Bitten (onychophagy or onychophagia) 2020, nail polish on plexiglass, 23 x 30 inches (58.42 x 76.2 cm) x 6 panels
– Vanishing clam, 2015, graphite on paper, 9 x 16 inches (22.86 x 40.64 cm)
The Artist to her Art, Fed it to the dog, 2018, mixed media on canvas
Installation view, M Gallery, 2021
#Shucked, Pitch pine, 6 x 9 feet, Installation view, Lawrence Alloway Gallery, 2021
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Scaled up, 2021
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Off the grid, 2022, mixed media on panel, 9 x 12 inches (22.86 x 30.48 cm)
The flower power Assoc, Installation view, MOCA, 2019
The flower power Assoc, Installation view, MOCA, 2019
Tree canopy grid, 2022, mixed media on panel, 9 x 12 inches (22.86 x 30.48 cm)
Holly, 2021, holly branches
Sprawl, 2022, water-based mixed media on paper, 9 x 12 inches (22.86 x 30.48 cm)
– Vanishing scallop, 2015, graphite on paper, 109 x 42 inches (276.86 x 106.68 cm)
Lopped off its head, 2019, 3d printed letters, 2 x 3 inches (5.8 x 7.62 cm)
The Artist to her Art, Punched it in the face, 2018, mixed media on cut canvas, 1496 pieces
The Artist to her Art, all cut up, 2018, digital print on acetate
Facebook ruined my day, 2015, mixed media on panel, 48 x 48 inches (121.92 x 121.92 cm)
Bitten, Formaldehyde, 2019, nail polish on plexiglass
Across the pond, installation view, 10 x 20 feet, Isilip Museum, 2015
The Developer’s Midnight Fantasy - Homewrecker, hanging, Zuccaire Gallery, 2021
Burr, 2021, burrs in plastic
Developer’s Midnight Fantasy, Glistening squirrels, 2021, mixed media on canvas, 50 x 94.5 inches (127 x 240.3 cm)
