EARTH ÆNGEL
Earth Ængel (they/them) is a Trans & Non-Binary research-based mixed-media artist currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Their practice is dedicated to the dissolution of binaries—specifically those pertaining to form, gender, and hierarchy. Earth’s work challenges capitalist values of singularity and hyper-individualism - instead embracing forms that are simultaneously constructed and dissolved. This refusal of colonial classification serves as a metaphor for disrupting entrenched social structures that are violent and exclusionary.
Ængel’s craft based mixed material exploration deliberately inhabits the space between grief and transformation within the colonial gaze and its practices of extraction. These transformative works serve as visual and tactile artifacts of the complex processes of becoming, healing, and liberation, their practice is inherently a form of recover, action, and solution. By using mixed media and craft based sculptural practices to physically embody natural cycles of decay and renewal, Ængel compels the viewer to confront one's own aesthetic notions of understanding and defining value.
The core of Earth’s practice is a critique of colonial consumption as destructive to both ecological systems and personal becoming. The funeral of empirical aesthetics and values is an articulation of environmental consciousness, pushing for a radical shift toward circular economies and spiritual value.
Ængel holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London. They have received awards from the Arts Council of England, Goldsmiths University, and the NYC Parks Department, and have exhibited in New York, London, Mexico City, Chicago, and Cyprus.
Ængel’s craft based mixed material exploration deliberately inhabits the space between grief and transformation within the colonial gaze and its practices of extraction. These transformative works serve as visual and tactile artifacts of the complex processes of becoming, healing, and liberation, their practice is inherently a form of recover, action, and solution. By using mixed media and craft based sculptural practices to physically embody natural cycles of decay and renewal, Ængel compels the viewer to confront one's own aesthetic notions of understanding and defining value.
The core of Earth’s practice is a critique of colonial consumption as destructive to both ecological systems and personal becoming. The funeral of empirical aesthetics and values is an articulation of environmental consciousness, pushing for a radical shift toward circular economies and spiritual value.
Ængel holds an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London. They have received awards from the Arts Council of England, Goldsmiths University, and the NYC Parks Department, and have exhibited in New York, London, Mexico City, Chicago, and Cyprus.