World Earth Day Prints
World Earth Day Prints
We have partnered with our artists as part of an ongoing initiative to raise funds through the sale of prints. This series has featured Jenny Holzer (2020), Rashid Johnson (2021), Gary Simmons (2022) and Angel Otero (2023), resulting in the preservation of an area of cloud forest in Northern Highlands of Guatemala. The forest will be presented for National Park status, ideally to be granted by 2025 and this conservation act means Art to Acres are closer to protecting the last large remaining cloud forest in Central America.
Angel Otero
For Earth Day 2023, Angel Otero created a limited edition print release titled ‘Lucky Rain.’ ‘The idea of the goldfish falling connects to my family and my memories, but also to the idea of unexpected abundance,’ says the artist. ‘A rain of fish may be a fantastical event, but we can move fish from one place to another to feed people.’
Gary Simmons
Created for Earth Day 2022, ‘Black Ark Stars (Process Black)’ is a limited edition benefit print from Gary Simmons featuring the artist’s iconic shooting stars, a multivalent symbol that conjures the ephemerality of dreams, hopes and desires.
Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson’s limited edition print for Earth Day 2021, ‘Untitled Anxious Red,’ employs the repeated motif that features in his Anxious Red series, which began as drawings made during and in reaction to the global lockdown. Through these archetypal faces, Johnson has captured the ‘life and death’ urgency of this moment.
Jenny Holzer
To mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day on 22 April 2020, Jenny Holzer created a limited edition print featuring one of her iconic Truisms—‘ALL THINGS ARE DELICATELY INTERCONNECTED.’ The statement adeptly provokes reflection on the pressing demands of a global pandemic as well as the continuing climate crisis.
