Art on Campus - Naida Osline
CAPS SMALL ART COLLECTION
NAIDA OSLINE
Visionary Plants: Borachero, 2017
Naida Osline
Archival Inkjet Print
48 x 60 inches
Location: Nursing Skills Lab, First Floor
Naida Osline combines and manipulates images sourced from both analog and digital processes, in which she blends conceptual and documentary practices, delving into a number of themes that explore economic and cultural structures, community, identity, gender, aging and transformation, along with the mystical and natural worlds in tension with the human-built environment. Her Visionary Plants series features plants that have a history of human use and therefore exist as cultural phenomena - tobacco, coca, coffee, cannabis, opium, and others. These plants have contributed to global economies, challenged beliefs, caused violence, fueled addiction, promoted spirituality, raised consciousness, inspired art, generated legislation, and, importantly, served medicinal functions. Her artistic practice involves growing or locating the plants, photographing them at various stages and finally recombining them into fantastical compositions, at much larger than life-size scale, suggesting their mythological status. The plants are combined with the animals and insects that inhabit their native environments, suggesting the interconnectedness, and precarity, of humanity’s ecological salvation.
Naida Osline has had solo exhibitions at Riverside Art Museum, Grand Central Art Center, Orange Coast College Art Gallery, Mt San Antonio College Art Gallery, and the Universidad de Caldas in Colombia. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at the UCR/California Museum of Photography, Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College, and the Torrance Art Museum.
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