A forgotten bunch of bludgeoned Bananas, a bent-up collection of Safety Pins, Shocking Power outlets, and Peeling-Product Stickers — these useful items are familiar harbingers of daily living under contemporary capitalism. Perhaps you left your Bananas out too long while waiting for the perfect ripeness, or you plugged something in wrong (and that little spark thing happened), or you pricked yourself on a pin while looking for a paperclip, or you just can’t get that little pesky price sticker off no matter how much you gunk your fingernail up trying. Izzy Losskarn makes art about that — that way that capitalism unjustly drives and divides culture along lines of race and gender, that way that capitalism keeps us too busy to eat our bananas before they rot, or wonder about the history which has brought them to us. Losskarn makes big, hyperrealistic pastel drawings which visually phrase questions like these with a subtle and sophisticated cadence; each drawing of hers is a work of color theory and visual metaphor that offers a calculated feminist on the pitfalls of contemporary popular culture.

Colorful plastic debris, shiny metal scraps, rusty car parts and burnt tree limbs. These objects embody the complicated relationship between humans and nature. This relationship can be sustaining, disdainful, nurturing, exploitive, responsive, meditative and more. My art practice uses found materials to create artwork depicting visual aspects of climate change. Found objects are my palette. Remnants from dumpster dives and beach clean-ups provide fertile ground for artistic inspiration as well as raw materials for making art. Through methods of collecting and cataloguing, I create artworks evoking processes of over-production, mass consumption, waste, and recycling. These compositions express critical narratives that question the sustainability of our globalized society. Both a sculptor and an architect by training, my artworks comment on human transgressions of natural and constructed environments. An environmentally engaged artist, my practice involves attending artist residencies at art farms around the country. I collaborate with conservation groups and community preservationists to create art evoking local sustainability issues. This place-based and research-oriented process explores native ecological narratives in different climatic regions. My multi-disciplinary artworks probe the intersections between sculpture, architecture, installation, and land art to comment on humanity’s intricate relationship with nature." — Jeff Schofield