Locust Projects presents Open Water, an immersive, multi-media installation reflecting on the ocean—both the vast planetary body and the ocean that resides within us. Through non-linear storytelling, sound, and projected video, it explores the vulnerability of loving something as it fades away. The ocean’s surface remains unchanged, but beneath lie secrets, beauty, and wildness we are losing, leaving mysteries forever undiscovered. The exhibition opens with a Meet the Artist Reception on Thursday, February 13 from 7-9 p.m.

This work attempts to redefine our shifting relationship with nature, exploring boundaries where the visible meets the invisible, and technology intertwines with nature. It translates data into personal meaning, merging science, mythology, and universal connections. Wischer seeks to deepen our bond with the environment and each other, addressing the climate crisis through impactful emotional engagement.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Wendy Wischer currently lives and works in central Connecticut. She received an MFA from Florida State University,1995 and a BFA from the University of Wisconsin Madison,1993.
With investigations in a variety of media from sculptural objects to installations, video, projection, sound, alternative forms of drawing and public works. Much of the artwork is based on blurring the separation between an intrinsic approach to working with nature and the cutting edge of New Media. 

The conceptual focus is on environmental issues; finding pathways, and creating experiences, that translate data into personal meaning. Through her creative explorations, often in collaboration with scientists, engineers and community collaborators, a wide range of data types are investigated to link nature with technology, science with mythology and personal identity with universal connections, while addressing our current climate crisis in hopes of finding impactful ways to connect people more deeply with the environments they live in and with each other.

She is the recipient of numerous grants including the Pollock-Krasner Grant, the South Florida Consortium, the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, and the Utah Division of Arts & Museums Visual Arts Fellowship among others. Wischer has exhibited nationally, and her work is part of several public collections including the Perez Art Museum, Art Bank Art in Public Places Miami, Art in Public Places Miami Beach, the Boca Museum of Art in Baca Raton Florida, the Colorado State Art Collection and the Utah Division of Arts & Museums Collection.