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Oblinger is a Professor of Art at Ripon College. She earned her BFA from Syracuse University and MFA from the University of California, Davis. Oblinger's art has been featured on several occasions and locations often described as investigating environments, including into the often-covert operations of nature. Her own words elaborate on hows h e often works with man-made, distinctly unnatural objects and uses them to exercise the aforementioned investigations into "animal tunnels, cellular anatomy and vulnerability." Fellow artist Joey Fauerso has noted that Oblinger's work evokes "the hidden but hugely industrious workings of termites." Oblinger takes the often-discarded materials of wasteful consumerist ways and transforms them into a unique landscape peering into nature's fascinating and sometimes mysterious functions of our natural world. Her works are on a large scale of ~40 inches with works both slightly larger and smaller using a vast amount of what we would call mundane materials to create
distinctlynon-mundane objects with non-mundane concepts accompanying them.
Written by Ripon College student Adam Scholze