Marion Belanger
Primary Medium: Photography
Other media: Installation
Marion Belanger Photography
Email: mbelanger36 (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://www.marionbelanger.com
Artist Statement
Continental Drift: Iceland/California
2006-
Continental Drift: Iceland/California documents the shifting edges of the North Atlantic Continental Plate: the eastern boundary in Iceland, along the Atlantic Rift, where it meets the Eurasian Plate and the San Andreas Fault in California, along the Pacific Plate. This geological boundary has no political allegiance, was not determined by wars, by financial interest, or national demarcation. It is a boundary that cannot be controlled or contained by human intervention; rather, forces deep in the earth determine it. Settings shift between the wild and the contained, the fertile and the barren, the geologic and the human. This dichotomy questions the uneasy relationship between geologic force and the limits of human intervention.
Other media: Installation
Marion Belanger Photography
Email: mbelanger36 (at) gmail (dot) com
Website: http://www.marionbelanger.com
Artist Statement
Continental Drift: Iceland/California
2006-
Continental Drift: Iceland/California documents the shifting edges of the North Atlantic Continental Plate: the eastern boundary in Iceland, along the Atlantic Rift, where it meets the Eurasian Plate and the San Andreas Fault in California, along the Pacific Plate. This geological boundary has no political allegiance, was not determined by wars, by financial interest, or national demarcation. It is a boundary that cannot be controlled or contained by human intervention; rather, forces deep in the earth determine it. Settings shift between the wild and the contained, the fertile and the barren, the geologic and the human. This dichotomy questions the uneasy relationship between geologic force and the limits of human intervention.
Selected Works
|  Landbrot - 2006 - Photography - 20"x24" - $2,250.00 [Fundraiser] Continental Plate Edge: Iceland  Heimaey - 2007 - Photography - 20"x24" - $2.00 Continental Plate Edge: Iceland  Salton Sea - 2009 - Photography - 20"x24" - $2,250.00 Continental Plate Edge: California  Hveragardi - 2006 - Photography - 20"x24" - $2,250.00 Continental Plate Edge: Iceland  Laugartvatn - 2006 - Photography - 20"x24" - $2,250.00 [Fundraiser] Continental Plate Edge: Iceland |
Artist Bio
Marion Belanger is a photographer who is interested in the concepts of persistence and change, and in the way that boundaries demarcate difference, particularly in regards to the land. She has been the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a John Anson Kittredge Award, an American Scandinavian Fellowship, Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships, and has been an artist in residence at the MacDowell Colony, at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, at the Virginia Center for the Arts and at Everglades National Park. The artist earned a MFA is from the Yale University School of Art where she was the recipient of both the John Ferguson Weir Award and the Schickle-Collingwood Prize, and a BFA from the College of Art & Design at Alfred University. Her photographs are included in many permanent collections including the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Museum of Art, the Yale University of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the International Center of Photography. She was the 2007 Photographer Laureate of Tampa, FL. Her book of photographs Everglades: Outside and Within, with an essay by Susan Orlean, was released by the Center for American Places at Columbia College and the University of Georgia Press in 2009. She is currently photographing the shifting edges of the North Atlantic Continental Plate in Iceland and California. She has lived in New Orleans, and currently resides in Guilford, Connecticut.