Meet the Artist: Alisa Singer
Alisa Singer
Alisa believes climate change to be the most critical challenge facing our world and sought to find a way to use her art to further efforts to bring awareness to the issue. She was attracted by the inherently aesthetic design elements of scientific charts and graphs, and intrigued by the idea of using art to give them dramatic effect.
She conceived the Environmental Graphiti project and created the series The Art of Climate Change, with abstract images illustrating the science behind the critical changes impacting our planet. Environmental Graphiti® is a collection of over 100 digital paintings, each derived from a chart, graph, map, word or number representing a key fact about climate science, or otherwise inspired by environmental themes.
Environmental Graphiti has been extensively exhibited in the US and other parts of the world. Dozens of universities own collections of the art and pieces were also acquired by a major science museum in Toronto. The art has also been featured on the covers of three major reports by the IPCC (the climate science organization sponsored by the UN and the World Meteorological Association) – Global Warming of 1.5°C (2018), Climate Change 2021 – The Physical Science Basis and Climate Change 2022 - Imapcts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.
ART makes the science more accessible. SCIENCE makes the art more meaningful.
It’s a powerful combination.
Video produced by Amy Mallozzi, SMILE Program Coordinator and Alyssa Pratt, Student Media Assistant. SMILE (Science & Math Investigative Learning Experiences) is a precollege program at Oregon State University.
A Unique Way to Tell the Climate Change Story
Graphic data about climate science is used as the “blueprint” for many of the digital paintings in the collection: “Environmental Graphiti–The Art of Climate Change.”
Alisa's Other Themed Collections
WHAT’S YOUR CAUSE?
The artist, Alisa Singer, also works with various non-profit organizations, as well as educational and governmental institutions, to create art from graphic data that expresses the organization’s special message and mission.
Series: Unmasked
They’re everywhere – sidewalks, bushes, hanging from fences, floating in pools of water with other debris and littering lawns and beaches – as ubiquitous as plastic water bottles and creating many of the same environmental risks. But these masks are so much more than just abandoned paper and fabric. They are the “flotsam and jetsam” of our pandemic wreckage - freighted with emotional significance and forever connecting us to, and reminding us of, an extraordinarily painful experience.
Series: Art Against Hate
In this series, the pairing of past and present symbols of hate and repression serves as a chilling reminder of the enduring insight of these words:
“…(T)he only clue to what man can do is what man has done….” R.G. Collingwood – The Idea of History, 1946
At the same time, these paintings celebrate the strength and heroism of those who struggled in the past against hatred, intolerance and bigotry, and of those who are, today, taking up the mantle of resistance against this growing threat to our democratic values and our humanity.
Day By Day
An Artistic Journey Through a Season of Chemotherapy
This series of 20 digital paintings reflects the artist’s personal challenge to experience chemotherapy, not through the lens of fear and anxiety, but though the colors, shapes and textures of the actual moods and experiences of the particular day. This art is the inspirational record of the effort to allow each day to “paint itself”, reflecting the broad spectrum of tones, hues, and values that express the infinite experiences and feelings that make up all of our days.
