For decades, Jacqueline Bishop has traveled to flashpoints of environmental peril around the world, especially the rainforests of Brazil, which are now deeply involved in patterns of land loss and climate change.
Jacqueline Bishop’s “Panorama,” which snakes on the walls of the Georgia State University art gallery, is a flotsam of baby shoes, artificial birds and toys, all bathed in black.
New Orleans artist Jacqueline Bishop and her husband came through the ordeal of Hurricane Katrina sadder and wiser, uncertain about the future of the city they love.
Are we trespassing? Jacqueline Bishop thinks we are, but not in the usual sense of the word. A well-traveled, widely exhibited artist who teaches an Art and Ecology course at Loyola, Bishop has something subtler yet more fundamental in mind — a sense that, in our race to remake the world in our own techno image, we have become ever more estranged from our origins in nature, and so, in some sense, from ourselves.
Jacqueline Bishop, whose new exhibit “Trespass” is on display at Arthur Roger Gallery, considers herself an ecologist and an artist. For years her jewel-like hyper-detailed paintings have dealt with the plight of rain forest beasts and birds, she’s traveled to Brazil several times to witness the loss of habitat firsthand, she teaches an art and ecology class at Loyola University, and lectures at ecology conferences across the country and around the globe.
I first interviewed Jacqueline Bishop in October 1999. Nearly eleven years had passed since the murder of Chico Mendes, but the Brazilian rubber tapper and ecologist was still very much on her mind.
Always engaged with ecological issues, particularly the destruction of the Brazilian rain forest, little did Jacqueline Bishop think she would ever witness the destruction of New Orleans.
Have you ever wondered what color the universe is? If so, you may be gratified to know that research scientists at Johns Hopkins University have determined that the universe is beige. Yes, beige – actually, pale beige – according to their best computer calculations. Sounds bland, doesn’t it?
How do we think, with the brain or with the mind? If a voice in your head whispers “brain,” stop and consider why we think. To make decisions, obviously —”yet most essential life decisions are not made consciously. We do not tell our blood how much oxygen to absorb through our lungs; our body does that for us.