Calliandra Marian Hermanson is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Baltimore, Maryland. While printmaking is the heart of her practice, her work has expanded to include sculpture, found scientific objects, video art and collaborations with plant beings within a largely installation-based framework. Drawing on her background in anthropology and plant sciences, she explores themes of human-plant relationships, plant intelligence and plant awareness disparity with the intention of challenging and deconstructing the rigid hierarchies present in spaces of western science. She is inspired by her experiences working for a plant pathology laboratory and how these reflections can engage with the emerging field of Critical Plant Studies as it challenges the privileged place of humans in relation to the plant life with whom we share this planet. Her work seeks to re-enchant plant beings into friends and colleagues in planetary co-habitation, distancing them from their roles as laboratory and experimental “others” and instead recognizing their agency as living beings.
Calliandra Hermanson received her MFA in Studio Art with a focus in Printmaking from the University of New Mexico in December 2021. She has shown installation work at multiple venues in Albuquerque and participated in group shows across the United States as well as internationally in Australia, Italy, and Mexico.
calliandrahermanson@gmail.com / instagram @ calliandra.marian
