Articles

‘Mixing Invasive Media to Create Environmental Awareness’
Surface Design Association
 
‘...I was in awe of its unsettling beauty...’

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‘Lines between nature and artifice blurred…’
Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times
 
‘…From a distance, the two "life forms" seem to exist in plausible symbiosis. Up close, De Pirro's ropy tangles look too artful to be a product of nature…’

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‘Walking with purpose through a blend of art and nature…’
Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times
 
‘…The best pieces strike an ambiguous note, entwining the natural and unnatural with a punlike precision. Barbara De Pirro's "fungo plastica," nestled in tree-trunk hollow…’
 
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‘Art in Carkeek Park’
Rosemary Ponnekanti, The News Tribune
 
‘…her tightly-woven, elegantly-curved bio-forms made of plastic bags…’
 
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‘elegance-irony-honesty’
Rosemary Ponnekanti, The News Tribune
 
‘…three installations that comment on environments in gently ironic ways… reminding us of the sea life that is slowly being destroyed by the North Pacific gyre of plastic trash…’
 
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‘Surfing a Sea of Plastic’
Lisa Kinoshita, Spaceworks Tacoma
 
‘…In a consumer culture bored with flotsam and jetsam of its own making, Barbara De Pirro has created a life raft…’
 
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‘Barbara De Pirro’s Eco-Art’
Lisa Kinoshita, Spaceworks Tacoma
 
‘…Barbara De Pirro has found a way not only to reclaim and re-imagine cast-off material, but to elevate it into art...The result: a kind of gorgeous détente between human beings and nature…’
 
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‘Spaceworks Tacoma: recycled art’
Alec Clayton, Weekly Volcano
 
‘…Barbara De Pirro, whose art from recycled materials would be intriguing no matter what it was made of…’
 
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