Ice Paintings Xavier Cortada, recipient of a 2006-2007 National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers fellowship, traveled to Antarctica to implement a series of projects and installations. While there, the Miami artist created “ice paintings” using sea ice, glacier and sediment samples provided to him by scientists working in Antarctica.  The artist titled the works on paper by randomly selecting the names of geographic features from a map of the continent that inspired their creation.   Florida Governor Charlie Crist and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger accept Antarctic "ice paintings" from artist Xavier Cortada at the Florida Summit on Global Climate Change in Miami on July 13, 2007.

Antarctic Ice Paintings are available for $2500 each. Please confirm availability with artist prior to purchasing the art piece.

Antarctic Sea Ice series

norvegia	weddell	wilkins
bellingshausen	wrigley	● ross
balleny	● porpoise	vincennes
prydz	● amundsen	astrid

Xavier Cortada
Ice Paintings: Antarctic Sea Ice series
Medium:  Sea ice from the Antarctica's Ross Sea, sediment from Antarctica's Dry Valleys and mixed media on paper
Size: 12 inches x 9 inches
Year: 2007
Created onsite at McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica

Ice Paintings: Western Antarctic Ice Sheet series
 

 

● slessor	hawkes	coman
● takahe	leverett	● wade
matusevich	●ninnus	totten
mellor	shirase	●widerøe
Xavier Cortada Ice Paintings: Western Antarctic Ice Sheet series Medium:  Ice from Western Antarctic Ice Sheet, sediment from Antarctica's Dry Valleys, and mixed media on paper Size: 12 inches x 9 inches Year: 2007 Created onsite at McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica

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Xavier Cortada's work has been shown across the Americas, Europe, Africa and Antarctica and locally in the Miami Art Museum, the Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium and the Bass Museum of Art. The Miami artist has been commissioned to create art for the White House, the Florida Supreme Court, Miami City Hall, the Museum of Florida History and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Cortada's work is also in the permanent collection of The World Bank.

For more information, please visit http://www.cortada.com.