Zaria Forman
NASA
82° 32' 30.3036"N 59° 54' 50.3814"W, July 24th, 2017, 68x108 1/8 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2019 (sold)
75.00986°S 137.09473581°W, 68 x 115 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2019
N66.32140 W37.17977982, 90 x 60 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2019 (sold)
74° 47' 58.401"S 131° 0' 54.8208"W, October 28th, 2016 60 x 90 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2018 (sold)
(between Hiawatha and Humboldt Glaciers), Greenland, 79° 6'59.05"N 65°15'54.99"W, July 19 2017 60 x 81 7/8 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2018 (sold)
74° 57' 16.3764"S 136° 34' 52.23"W, October 28th, 2016 60 x 90 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2018 (sold)
69° 4'51.58"N 49°28'24.41"W, April 29th, 2017 108 3/8 x 68 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2018 (sold)
66°21'7.21"N 36°59'10.49"W , April 22, 2017 90 x 60 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2018
69° 47' 31.092"N 49° 47' 31.7076"W, April 29th, 2017 68 x 102 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2018 (sold)
79° 4' 3.4602"N 65° 19' 26.7846"W, July 19, 2017 40 x 60 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2018 (sold)
79.104111°N,64.940020°W, July 19th, 2017 60 x 90 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2017 (sold)
74° 45' 57.708"S 133° 50' 54.8448"W, October 28th, 2016 40 x 60 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2018 (sold)
(Southeast off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula) 66° 8’, 32.831”S, 49° 50’ 32.118”W, October 27th, 2016 60 x 90 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2018 (sold)
(Northwest off the coast of Ellesmere Island, CAN), 83° 19' 44.976"N, 79° 18' 22.957"W, July 17th, 2017 40 x 60 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2018 (sold)
68° 7'22.30"N 33° 5'40.70"W, April 22nd, 2017 45 x 30 inches, soft pastel on paper, 2018 (sold)
In 2016 & 2017 Zaria Forman was invited to join NASA's Operation IceBridge, an airborne science mission that has been mapping changes in the ice at both poles for over a decade. Forman joined some of their flights over Antarctica, Greenland and Arctic Canada. The aircrafts were equipped with a whole suite of instruments including lasers, radars, an infrared sensor, digital photography and a gravimeter (an instrument used to measure gravity). Flights were 12 hours on average, day after day, and soared only 1,500 feet above glaciers, sea ice, and mountain ranges.
As our climate changes, ice melt is speeding up. The rate at which the whole of Antarctica is shedding ice has tripled over the past decade. The IceBridge missions are collecting critical information that can tell us how this ice loss is occurring—and what these changes mean for sea level rise and coastal communities around the world.