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Title
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Grounded
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Artist
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Ron Finley
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Date
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2024
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Description
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A large-scale garden installation commissioned for the Hammer Museum exhibition Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice (2024–25), the largest work in the show. South Los Angeles environmental activist Ron Finley, known as the “Gangsta Gardener,” planted a terrace outside the museum's bookstore and galleries with fruit trees, vegetables, and herbs, some growing in salvaged bathtubs and sinks, and set out about two dozen chairs for visitors. A “Redline Realty” sign recalls the housing discrimination that shaped Los Angeles neighborhoods, and plant markers carry the names of people killed by police. The work extends Finley's practice of turning neglected urban ground into food gardens as an act of community care and self-determination. After the exhibition, its soil and materials were returned to the artist.
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Artwork Type
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Installation
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Environmental Art
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Materiality
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Living Organisms
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Plant Materials
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Soil
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Found / Salvaged Materials
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Climate & Ecology Themes
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Food Systems and Seed Sovereignty
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Environmental Justice
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Environmental Racism
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Urban Landscapes and Infrastructures
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Concepts
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Care and Reciprocity
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Healing and Repair
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Ecological Domain / Habitat
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Urban
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Methods & Approaches
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Community-Based Practice
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Social Practice
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Audience / Engagement Type
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Public / General Audience
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Community
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Location
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Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
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Geographic Scope
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Site-Specific / Single Site
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Rights
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Rights held by artist or creator
Ron Finley, Grounded