Norwood Viviano: Mapping Infrastructure / Mapping Agriculture

Artist Norwood Viviano combines technology, data collection, and art to visually depict change. From shifts in population and industry to sea level rise, he synthesizes complex data into sculptures that bring light to the effect of those changes on communities over time. Through blown glass paired with vinyl images and cast glass and metal sculptures, Viviano engages the extensive research of historians, urban planners, demographers, and climate scientists to create works that merge past and future. Mapping Infrastructure / Mapping Agriculture presents sculptures and visual explorations examining manufacturing history in U.S. cities and projected land loss due to sea level rise. On view is the "Recast" series, combining imagery from manufacturing's past with current urban architecture, and "Cities Underwater," which visualizes dramatic loss of land predicted to occur in the next 500 years in coastal areas. About Norwood Viviano Norwood Viviano is an associate professor and sculpture program coordinator at Grand Valley State University. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Smithsonian American Art Museum's Renwick Gallery, and is held in major museum collections including the Corning Museum of Glass and Museum of Fine Arts Houston.