Beth Iska is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist, writer, and advocate for urban forests, street trees & native oak ecosystems in Illinois.
My recent artwork explores the preservation of inherently unstable materials. I re-imagine relationships between ephemeral and permanent experiences. Circumstances & arrangements might evoke nature, but reflect possible new orders between human and nonhuman. The act of collecting and the memory of that act is a key element of my art practice.
As a TreeKeeper, Beth Iska is engaged with sustaining trees in the Chicago area. She is enchanted by living things grappling with the materiality of the world, where everything remains in flux.
