Tali Weinberg (b.1982) is an American artist based in Champaign, Illinois.
Weinberg graduated from both New York University and California College of the Arts.
Using sculpture, drawing, and textiles, Weinberg translates climate data into abstracted landscapes and waterscapes.
Weinberg combines plant-derived fibers and dyes, petrochemical-derived medical materials, climate data, and abstracted landscape imagery to explore the inextricability of ecological and human health.
With series’ names such as Heat Waves, Drainage Studies, Fault Lines, and Fractures and Fissures, Weinberg’s works draw out connections between extraction, rising temperatures, species loss, and the buildup of plastics in our bodies and ecosystems.
Her most recent research focuses on relationships between people and plants and the interconnections between circulatory systems inside and outside the human body—from lungs and arteries to forests and watersheds.
“I employ textile strategies to turn expired plastic medical waste into sculptures that allude to the more-than-human world…and I transform photos I took of trees in a fire-scarred landscape into woven, plant-plastic forms that allude to human anatomy,” the artist shares.
“Together, these works trace relationships between extraction and illness, between personal and communal loss, and between corporeal and ecological bodies.”
More of Tali Weinberg’s thought provoking and creative textiles can be found at https://www.taliweinberg.com/.
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