“My life is lived in shapes and embedded in systems that can blend with or deny relations with more than human worlds. My work processes my place as a nexus of sedimentary involutions: human-historical and geologic-scale are handled equally, and given teeth, as the living skin of earth bites back.” -Teal Gardner
Teal Gardner (b. 1984, Albuquerque, NM) is an interdisciplinary artist, living and working in Boise, ID.
Her work uses historical and present day development as sites for inquiry into interrelationships among human and more-than-human beings.
Her ongoing project, The Ecogeoglyphic Observatory, is in its fourth year.
Teal has received support from the Boise Arts and History Department, the City of Boise Arts and History Department, The Idaho Commission on the Arts, A Blade of Grass, MING Studios, The Alexa Rose Foundation, The Common Well, The Union for Contemporary Art and the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. She is currently a Frontier Fellow with Epicenter, located in Green River, UT.
She holds a BA from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque’s Confluence MFA program.
