Christopher Marley is an artist and designer who uses natural artifacts as his medium of expression. To create this work, he collects specimens in an environmentally responsible manner from a worldwide network of people who share his passion for nature. His popular first book, Pheromone (2008), focused on his artwork with insects. He lives and works in Oregon.
“Christopher Marley’s Biophilia is much more than a sumptuous
coffee-table pleasure. It is also an elegant manifesto meant to
nudge us off our couches and easy chairs and out the door.”
*The New York Times Science Times*
“Nature can seem messy, chaotic, even frightening, but in
Christopher Marley’s world, it’s a bounty of useable materials that
can be infinitely organized and aestheticized.”
*Slate*
“While (Christopher Marley’s) work is motivated by aesthetics, many
of the artist’s mosaics tell scientific stories, particularly those
that include organisms that are genetically related but live in
different parts of the world. . . . He painstakingly arranges
according to color to highlight their striking visual
relationships.”
*Smithsonian.com*
“Even the hard categorizations and taxonomies of a natural history
museum don’t hide the beauty of the world. . . . But rarely do you
get to see those specimens side by side. . . . Marley chooses his
juxtapositions carefully to emphasize the full spectrum of color
displayed—and replicated—in the natural world. His chosen flora and
fauna bring out each others’ best hues.”
*Wired.com*
“As an artist, [Christopher] Marley offers a perspective on nature
that’s more corporeal than conceptual. It manifests itself in clean
lines and axes—orbiting specimens that have passed from life to
deities of art.”
*Audubon.org*
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