Sonja Schenk

I am multi-disciplinary artist from Long Beach who started out with video installation and has since turned to other types of installation, painting, and sculpture. My work looks at the intersection of humankind and the natural world through traditional, technological, and transformative processes. At a very simple level, my work is based in the genre of “landscape” and it is impossible to make art about the earth and ignore the problems of climate change—in that regard my work is political and also philosophical, climate change being an existential crisis. I exhibit both locally and internationally and have created several large site-specific installations. Influenced by early mentors Allan Kaprow, Dee Dee Halleck, and Manny Farber, my work relies on a strong grounding in conceptual thought that is then translated to different media.