Work samples

  • Losing Winter
    Losing Winter, still images from Losing Winter augmented reality mobile app as viewed at The Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD
  • Uncultivated
    Uncultivated, site specific installation of posters for bus shelters, Bronx, NY.
  • Diluvian
    Diluvian 14, unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 25" x 21". From series featuring shadowy images of discarded electronics, which persist in the environment long after their obsolescence, juxtaposed with organic materials, highlighting their vastly different rates of decay.
  • Portrait Garden
    Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of 'portraits' of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women (MCIW), a multilevel security prison.

About Lynn

Baltimore City

Lynn Cazabon's work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions with Maryland Center for History and Culture (Baltimore, MD), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Bucharest, Romania), Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center (Tainan, Taiwan), South Bend Museum of Art (South Bend, IN), WRO Art Center (Wrocław, Poland), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth, New Zealand), The Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, PA), Artists Space (New York, NY), Hallwalls… more

Losing Winter

Site-specific multimedia participatory art project, AR mobile app


Losing Winter is a site-specific, participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and providing a window onto what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on weather patterns. The project is realized through site-specific exhibitions, collaborations with the public, and an augmented reality mobile application. Losing Winter was first realized with the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest, Romania in 2018. In addition to the recorded memories, the project in Bucharest included Melt, a video featuring a series of unique ice sculptures created in response to memories contributed by participants positioned in key locations in and around the museum. Losing Winter has since been realized in several other iterations, including at the Maryland Center for History and Culture (Baltimore, MD, 2021 - 23) and at the Oresman Gallery at Smith College (Northampton, MA, 2022). The Losing Winter mobile app is the project archive and invites users to experience the memories of others through an augmented reality display. Holding up a mobile device, users see a shower of rain drops overlaid onto the scene in which they are standing. Tapping on the screen freezes drops of virtual water and tapping a second time enlarges a single drop, revealing a person frozen inside who begins to speak, telling you about their memory. As they complete their story, they disappear and the ice drop melts, turning back into water and falling out the bottom of the frame.

  • Losing Winter
    Stills from augmented reality mobile app.
  • Losing Winter
    An example of memories as viewed through the Losing Winter AR mobile app at The Peale Museum in Baltimore, MD.
  • Losing Winter
    Still images from 24 videos, for project as realized for the Oresman Gallery at Smith College. This iteration of the project resulted in a mediated intergenerational dialogue between communities of people aged 60+ in Springfield, MA and Smith College theatre students.
  • Losing Winter
    Four memories from realization of Losing Winter for Oresman Gallery at Smith College, 2022. This iteration of the project resulted in a mediated intergenerational dialogue between communities of people aged 60+ in Springfield, MA and Smith College theatre students.
  • Losing Winter
    Documentation of Losing Winter exhibition at the Maryland Center for History and Culture. Memories collected from Marylanders of different ages are presented within a historical exhibition of photographs and films showing Maryland in winter over a 100 year period.
  • Losing Winter
    Still images from Losing Winter AR mobile app, as viewed in Losing Winter exhibition at the Maryland Center for History and Culture, 2021.
  • Losing Winter
    An example of one memory as viewed through the Losing Winter AR mobile app in the Losing Winter exhibition at the Maryland Center for History and Culture.
  • MELT
    Still from Melt, 4K video
  • MELT
    4K video that is part of the project as realized with the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest, Romania (2018). The video features ice sculptures created to represent selected memories placed in key locations inside and outside the museum in the process of melting.

Uncultivated

Site-specific artwork, geo-referenced photographs, public displays, website, workshops

http://uncultivated.info
Uncultivated is a site-specific, scalable art project focused on wild plants within urban landscapes. The project draws attention to plant species that are typically rejected as weeds but which are able to thrive in the harsh conditions we have created in cities and are increasingly found around the world. Each photograph has a corresponding webpage containing detailed information on all the plants appearing in them, the location, and the date it was taken. Public displays show images taken in the vicinity of the display venue and workshops are hosted in collaboration with the local communities in which the project is realized. 
  • Uncultivated
    Documentation of site specific installation, 6 of 12 photographs printed on canvas, 88.5" x 59" each, Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan, 2018.
  • Uncultivated
    Documentation of site specific installation, 6 of 12 photographs printed on canvas, 88.5" x 59" each, Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, Tsung-Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan, 2018.
  • Uncultivated
    Detail of site specific installation, 1 of 12 photographs, 88.5" x 59" each, Madou Sugar Industry Art Triennial, Tsung Yeh Arts and Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan, 2018.
  • Uncultivated
    Photograph and text, documentation of poster in bus shelter on Hunts Point Blvd, Bronx, NY, 2018, 65" x 45", created under South Bronx Resiliency Arts Fellowship. Includes common names of highlighted plant in Spanish.
  • Uncultivated
    Photograph and text, displayed as poster in bus shelter on Hunts Point Blvd, Bronx, NY, 2018, 65" x 45", created under South Bronx Resiliency Arts Fellowship. Includes common names of highlighted plant in Spanish.
  • Uncultivated
    Photograph and text, documentation of poster in bus shelter on Hunts Point Blvd, Bronx, NY, 2018, 65" x 45", created under South Bronx Resiliency Arts Fellowship. Includes common names of highlighted plant.
  • Uncultivated
    Documentation of Urban Wild Plant Cameraless Photography Workshop, International Center of Photography at The Point, Bronx, NY, May 2018.
  • Uncultivated
    photographic mural produced for WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland, 11 feet x 10 feet, 2016
  • Uncultivated
    Site-specific photographic mural for facade of WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland, 10 feet x 16 feet, 2016
  • Uncultivated
    Detail, site-specific photographic mural for facade of WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland, 10 feet x 16 feet, 2016

Ecomimesis

Virtual reality environment


Ecomimesis is a VR environment containing animated virtual plants that offers viewers an intimate encounter with growing plants in an accelerated life-cycle. The species featured is Conyza canadensis, a common urban ‘weed’ chosen for its prevalence in human crafted landscapes that is at same time often 'invisible' to most people as they choose to ignore such so-called nuisance species. Ecomimesis was inspired by Charles Darwin's The Power of Movement in Plants in which Darwin documents his observations of how plants move as they grow.  

  • Ecomimesis
    Still from VR animation, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Lab Detroit, 2018
  • Ecomimesis
    Video of animation from view of VR headset, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Detroit, 2018
  • Ecomimesis
    Still from VR animation, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Lab Detroit, 2018
  • Ecomimesis
    Still from VR animation, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Lab Detroit, 2018
  • Ecomimesis
    Still from VR animation, as customized for exhibition in the Science Gallery Lab Detroit, 2018
  • Ecomimesis
    still image from VR animation in generic gallery space
  • Ecomimesis
    Still image from VR animation in generic gallery space
  • Ecomimesis
    Still image from VR animation in generic gallery space

Diluvian

Unique gelatin silver solar photograms


The images in the Diluvian series were created using expired black and white photographic paper and lengthy solar exposures. These unique cameraless, contact prints feature shadowy images of discarded electronics, which persist in the environment long after their obsolescence, juxtaposed with organic materials, highlighting their vastly different rates of decay. 
  • Diluvian
    40 unique gelatin silver solar photograms, @ 8" x 10", total dimensions 53" x 87"
  • Diluvian
    40 unique gelatin silver solar photograms, detail of one print 8"x10"
  • Diluvian 11
    unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 24.5" x 21"
  • Diluvian 12
    unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 24" x 21"
  • Diluvian 14
    nique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 25" x 21"
  • Diluvian 15
    unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 24" x 21"
  • Diluvian 16
    unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 24" x 21"
  • Diluvian 26
    unique solar photogram on gelatin silver vellum, 20" x 19.5"
  • Diluvian 2
    unique silver gelatin solar photogram, 11"x14"
  • Diluvian 9
    unique silver gelatin solar photogram, 11"x14"

Baltic Portraits

Photographs and text


Baltic Portraits is a trilingual project situated at the intersection between the genres of portraiture and landscape. The project consists of a series of fifty portraits of residents of Liepaja, Latvia, standing at the edge of the Baltic Sea displayed with a quote about the role the sea plays in their lives, along with eight long-exposure photographs of the sea taken just after sunset. Latvia is one of the three Baltic countries, with a complex history of occupation by Nazi Germany and the USSR for a majority of the 20th century. The Baltic Sea forms Latvia's border on its western side while Russia borders its eastern side. With tensions with Russia currently erupting across the region, the Baltic Sea is a visible reminder of the vulnerability of this small country.
  • Baltic Portraits (Irina)
    photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
  • Baltic Portraits (Geoff)
    photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
  • Baltic Portraits (Lidja)
    photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
  • Baltic Portraits (Eriks)
    photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
  • Baltic Portraits (10 seconds)
    photograph, long exposure of Baltic Sea taken after sunset, 33" x 50"
  • Baltic Portraits (Faina)
    photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
  • Baltic Portraits (Bruno)
    photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
  • Baltic Portraits (8 seconds)
    photograph, long exposure of the Baltic Sea taken after sunset, 33" x 50"
  • Baltic Portraits (Tatjana)
    photograph and text, 60" x 30", text in Latvian, Russian, and English
  • Baltic Portraits (1 second)
    photograph, long exposure of the Baltic Sea taken after sunset, 33" x 50"

Portrait Garden

Photograph, text, audio, community collaboration


Portrait Garden is a metaphorical garden of 'portraits' of eleven women incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, a multilevel security prison. Portrait Garden used environmental stewardship as a tool for self-reflection and resulted in the creation of three perennial gardens on the prison grounds. The display of the project consists of a collection of photographic prints of the cultivated plants paired with text and audio statements from each woman.
  • Portrait Garden (Carrie, Echinacea purpurea)
    Photograph, text, audio, community collaboration; presented as interactive poster for Baltimore Light Rail, 22" x 23"
  • Portrait Garden (Carrie)
    excerpt from audio part of portrait, 02:43
  • Portrait Garden
    Documentation of posters installed in Baltimore Light Rail trains
  • Portrait Garden (Carlita, Mertensia virginica)
    Photograph, text, audio, community collaboration; presented as interactive poster for Baltimore Light Rail, 22" x 23"
  • Portrait Garden (Carlita)
    excerpt from audio part of portrait, 01:22
  • Portrait Garden (Wendi, Hemerocallis 'Pardon Me')
    Photograph, text, audio, community collaboration; presented as interactive poster for Baltimore Light Rail, 22" x 23"
  • Portrait Garden (Wendi)
    excerpt from audio part of portrait, 01:07
  • Portrait Garden
    Documentation of posters installed in Baltimore Light Rail trains
  • Portrait Garden (S, Dryopteris erythrosora)
    Photograph, text, audio, community collaboration; presented as interactive poster for Baltimore Light Rail, 22" x 23"
  • Portrait Garden
    Documentation of exhibition of project held in Maryland Correctional Institution for Women

Junkspace

Time and location sensitive animation, custom software

Junkspace is a time and location sensitive animation that dynamically visualizes space debris tracking data, using images of earth-bound electronic waste as stand-ins for debris in orbit above the viewer. Using custom software, orbital debris tracking data, and the user’s location, the movement of animated e-waste on screen aligns with the path of pieces of debris in orbit above the user’s location. The project draws attention to a central problem of technological innovation: objects that persist in the environment long after their functional and stylistic obsolescence. The project originally also existed as an iOS app. 

  • Junkspace
    production still from animation
  • Junkspace
    sample of animation
  • Junkspace
    Installation inside former mikveh in White Stork Synagogue, produced for WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
  • Junkspace
    Installation inside former mikveh in White Stork Synagogue, produced for WRO Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
  • Junkspace
    Projected animation onto a 2-sided translucent screen adhered to front window of gallery at ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness exhibition, 516Arts, Albuquerque, NM
  • Junkspace
    Projected animation onto a 2-sided translucent screen adhered to front window of gallery at ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness exhibition, 516Arts, Albuquerque, NM
  • Junkspace
    Projected animation onto a 2-sided translucent screen adhered to front window of gallery at ISEA2012 Machine Wilderness exhibition, 516Arts, Albuquerque, NM
  • Junkspace
    Installation of projected animation, custom prints on fabric installed in windows, ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, CA
  • Junkspace
    Installation of projected animation, custom prints on fabric installed in windows, ZERO1 Biennial, San Jose, CA; detail of custom prints on fabric installed in windows

Discard

Pigment ink jet prints and Fuji Crystal Archive prints


Discard is a body of work consisting of several discrete series of photographic prints featuring movie films discarded by public institutions (libraries, schools, archives). Harking back to the 19th century practice of postmortem photography, each print serves as a memento mori to an obsolete film. More generally, the series reflects on the often arbitrary process that determines whether cultural artifacts are preserved or discarded. 
  • Discard 2 (The National Archives, College Park, MD)
    3 pigment ink jet prints mounted in Sintra, 42" x 86" each
  • Discards 2 (The National Archives, College Park, MD)
    print #1 or 3, pigment ink jet print, 42" x 86"
  • Discards 2 (The National Archives, College Park, MD)
    Detail of print #1, pigment ink jet print, 42" x 86"
  • Discards (University of New Hampshire Libraries, Durham, NH)
    50 pigment ink jet prints, 12"x12" each
  • Discards (University of New Hampshire Libraries, Durham, NH)
    detail, 1 of 50 pigment ink jet prints, 12" x 12" each
  • Discard 9 (The National Archives, College Park, MD)
    pigment ink jet print, 42" x 36"
  • Discard 3 (Enoch Pratt Library, Baltimore, MD)
    pigment ink jet print, 40" x 70"
  • Super Eight (8 seconds of 34 films)
    Fuji Crystal Archive print, 42" x 96"
  • Super Eight (8 seconds of 34 films)
    Detail, Fuji Crystal Archive print, 42" x 96"
  • reel
    reel (digital video, 2 mins 46 sec) shows a profile view of a film reel in fast motion while the audio is in real time. As the film becomes progressively smaller on the reel, the light behind the projector gets brighter, de-materializing and optically transforming the image of the reel as it turns. The singular nature of the image produces a zen-like meditation on the materiality of film and its obsolescence as a representational technology.

Story of M

Installation of 140 Lightjet prints, video, viewer-activated, ink jet prints
Story of M presents the viewer with fragmented details (images, sounds, films) of an anonymous man’s life across several decades of time. These various elements set the stage for multiple narratives to be constructed – the shape of any one story reflecting back to the viewer their own subjective “M”. The viewer's movement in the second room of the installation randomly triggers one of 200 audio clips to play, incorporating them into the shaping of the work.
  • Story of M
    Installation at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
  • Story of M
    Installation at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
  • Story of M
    Detail of 140 Lightjet photographs
  • Story of M
    Documentation of installation at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
  • Story of M
    Lightjet print, 8"x10"
  • Story of M
    Lightjet print, 8"x10"
  • Story of M
    Lightjet print, 8"x10"
  • Story of M
    Lightjet print, 8"x10"
  • Story of M
    Lightjet print, 8"x10"
  • Story of M
    Lightjet print, 8"x10"

Plaids

Chromogenic photographs and photograms

Plaids combines super-eight movie film and a labor-intensive, hand-made process. Each print in the series was made from dozens of individually developed and toned strips of super-eight movie film woven together, each containing a mini-narrative embedded within the film frames. These sequences feature short performances by the artist as well as frames from found footage. These images are 'photographs' of film which at first glance are abstract, referencing pixels, paintings, and textiles.
  • Plaid (the large plaid)
    60 chromogenic photographs, total size: 8' x 16', installation at Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO, 1997
  • Plaid (the large plaid)
    60 chromogenic photographs, total size: 8' x 16', 1997, detail
  • Plaid (history of a sexuality)
    Chromogenic color photographs mounted on 4 black plexiglas panels, 7' x 13', installation at Galerie Vox, Montreal, QC, 2000
  • Plaid (history of a sexuality)
    chromogenic color photographs mounted on 4 black plexiglas panels, 7' x 13', 2000, detail

  • Plaid (slapstick)
    chromogenic color photograph, 30" x 40", 1999
  • Plaid (slapstick)
    chromogenic color photograph, 30" x 40", 1999, detail
  • Plaid (rewind)
    sequence of 30 chromogenic photographs, 20"x24" each, 1999, detail
  • Plaid (rewind) DETAIL
    sequence of 30 chromogenic photographs, 20"x24" each, 1999, detail
  • Plaid 7 (red paranoia)
    chromogenic photogram, 24" x 20", 1997
  • Plaid 7 (red paranoia)
    chromogenic photogram, 24" x 20", 1997, detail