Four Barrel Coffee is pleased to present Habitual Nature by Iris Alden and Emily Ritz. Based in Oakland and New York respectively, these two artists have concurrently built new bodies of work with this exhibition and each other in mind. Iris and Emily use similar visual languages to address their overlapping themes of habitat, comfort, and healing. In a variety of different sizes and formats, Habitual Nature gives us dreamlike scenes rooted in landscape, plant life, and elements of the human form. Habitual Nature runs from April 6 through May 18 at Four Barrel Coffee in San Francisco. Join us Friday April 7 from 6-8pm for the opening reception, and again on Monday May 15 from 6-8pm for a closing party.
Iris Alden is an artist and illustrator based in Oakland. She studied art at Whitman College in Washington state, where her expansive project of creating a fictional outsider artist won the prize for best thesis. She then returned to her native Bay Area and has supplemented her studio practice with a role as house illustrator for the Pizzaiolo restaurant group. Her work meanders from painting to poetry to performance to comedy and beyond, and she finds influence in tropicalia, folk art, and mystic traditions.
Iris’s pieces are meditations on the relationship between internal and external habitat—how the perception of one affects the reception of the other. The rising suns remind us that we are always in a state of gentle renewal, even when we are lost. Nature inspires all of this work, but importantly the work lacks reference to any specific landscape. The pieces therefore create a sensation at once familiar and surreal, akin to returning to a space recognized from a dream. The series invites the viewer to reflect on a unified process of living—an idealistic vision that perhaps we best serve nature by simply doing what is natural as individuals.
Emily Ritz is an artist and musician based in Hudson, New York. A creator since early childhood, Emily has spent the majority of her time and energy making art and music. She moved to Oakland after high school to study filmmaking at CCA, then quickly returned to her roots in painting and drawing. She has always used her creations therapeutically as a direct way to express and heal herself.
Inspired by coral reefs and lush forests, Emily uses drawing, painting, sculpture and embroidery to bring her unique vision of beauty to life. This body of work is titled ‘Lumplands’, the term Emily has used to name her naturescapes and the world in which they exist. When working on paper, Emily will often lay the watercolor down first and then draw on top of it, letting the paint determine a lot of the movement and composition of the piece. Her love of repetition is quite apparent in the hyper detailed patterns that grow over each piece. Emily’s Lumplands have recently started to include imagery from the human body, making the pieces more immediately relatable and emphasizing the healing abilities of plants.
Four Barrel is a cafe and roastery that has been supporting artists with exhibitions since 2008. This exhibition is free and open to the public. Four Barrel Coffee is located at 375 Valencia Street in San Francisco, and is open daily from 7am until 8pm. Four Barrel may be reached at [email protected].
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Iris Alden is an artist and illustrator based in Oakland. She studied art at Whitman College in Washington state, where her expansive project of creating a fictional outsider artist won the prize for best thesis. She then returned to her native Bay Area and has supplemented her studio practice with a role as house illustrator for the Pizzaiolo restaurant group. Her work meanders from painting to poetry to performance to comedy and beyond, and she finds influence in tropicalia, folk art, and mystic traditions.
Iris’s pieces are meditations on the relationship between internal and external habitat—how the perception of one affects the reception of the other. The rising suns remind us that we are always in a state of gentle renewal, even when we are lost. Nature inspires all of this work, but importantly the work lacks reference to any specific landscape. The pieces therefore create a sensation at once familiar and surreal, akin to returning to a space recognized from a dream. The series invites the viewer to reflect on a unified process of living—an idealistic vision that perhaps we best serve nature by simply doing what is natural as individuals.
Emily Ritz is an artist and musician based in Hudson, New York. A creator since early childhood, Emily has spent the majority of her time and energy making art and music. She moved to Oakland after high school to study filmmaking at CCA, then quickly returned to her roots in painting and drawing. She has always used her creations therapeutically as a direct way to express and heal herself.
Inspired by coral reefs and lush forests, Emily uses drawing, painting, sculpture and embroidery to bring her unique vision of beauty to life. This body of work is titled ‘Lumplands’, the term Emily has used to name her naturescapes and the world in which they exist. When working on paper, Emily will often lay the watercolor down first and then draw on top of it, letting the paint determine a lot of the movement and composition of the piece. Her love of repetition is quite apparent in the hyper detailed patterns that grow over each piece. Emily’s Lumplands have recently started to include imagery from the human body, making the pieces more immediately relatable and emphasizing the healing abilities of plants.
Four Barrel is a cafe and roastery that has been supporting artists with exhibitions since 2008. This exhibition is free and open to the public. Four Barrel Coffee is located at 375 Valencia Street in San Francisco, and is open daily from 7am until 8pm. Four Barrel may be reached at [email protected].
Four Barrel Coffee is pleased to present Habitual Nature by Iris Alden and Emily Ritz. Based in Oakland and New York respectively, these two artists have concurrently built new bodies of work with this exhibition and each other in mind. Iris and Emily use similar visual languages to address their overlapping themes of habitat, comfort, and healing. In a variety of different sizes and formats, Habitual Nature gives us dreamlike scenes rooted in landscape, plant life, and elements of the human form. Habitual Nature runs from April 6 through May 18 at Four Barrel Coffee in San Francisco. Join us Friday April 7 from 6-8pm for the opening reception, and again on Monday May 15 from 6-8pm for a closing party.
Iris Alden is an artist and illustrator based in Oakland. She studied art at Whitman College in Washington state, where her expansive project of creating a fictional outsider artist won the prize for best thesis. She then returned to her native Bay Area and has supplemented her studio practice with a role as house illustrator for the Pizzaiolo restaurant group. Her work meanders from painting to poetry to performance to comedy and beyond, and she finds influence in tropicalia, folk art, and mystic traditions.
Iris’s pieces are meditations on the relationship between internal and external habitat—how the perception of one affects the reception of the other. The rising suns remind us that we are always in a state of gentle renewal, even when we are lost. Nature inspires all of this work, but importantly the work lacks reference to any specific landscape. The pieces therefore create a sensation at once familiar and surreal, akin to returning to a space recognized from a dream. The series invites the viewer to reflect on a unified process of living—an idealistic vision that perhaps we best serve nature by simply doing what is natural as individuals.
Emily Ritz is an artist and musician based in Hudson, New York. A creator since early childhood, Emily has spent the majority of her time and energy making art and music. She moved to Oakland after high school to study filmmaking at CCA, then quickly returned to her roots in painting and drawing. She has always used her creations therapeutically as a direct way to express and heal herself.
Inspired by coral reefs and lush forests, Emily uses drawing, painting, sculpture and embroidery to bring her unique vision of beauty to life. This body of work is titled ‘Lumplands’, the term Emily has used to name her naturescapes and the world in which they exist. When working on paper, Emily will often lay the watercolor down first and then draw on top of it, letting the paint determine a lot of the movement and composition of the piece. Her love of repetition is quite apparent in the hyper detailed patterns that grow over each piece. Emily’s Lumplands have recently started to include imagery from the human body, making the pieces more immediately relatable and emphasizing the healing abilities of plants.
Four Barrel is a cafe and roastery that has been supporting artists with exhibitions since 2008. This exhibition is free and open to the public. Four Barrel Coffee is located at 375 Valencia Street in San Francisco, and is open daily from 7am until 8pm. Four Barrel may be reached at [email protected].
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Iris Alden is an artist and illustrator based in Oakland. She studied art at Whitman College in Washington state, where her expansive project of creating a fictional outsider artist won the prize for best thesis. She then returned to her native Bay Area and has supplemented her studio practice with a role as house illustrator for the Pizzaiolo restaurant group. Her work meanders from painting to poetry to performance to comedy and beyond, and she finds influence in tropicalia, folk art, and mystic traditions.
Iris’s pieces are meditations on the relationship between internal and external habitat—how the perception of one affects the reception of the other. The rising suns remind us that we are always in a state of gentle renewal, even when we are lost. Nature inspires all of this work, but importantly the work lacks reference to any specific landscape. The pieces therefore create a sensation at once familiar and surreal, akin to returning to a space recognized from a dream. The series invites the viewer to reflect on a unified process of living—an idealistic vision that perhaps we best serve nature by simply doing what is natural as individuals.
Emily Ritz is an artist and musician based in Hudson, New York. A creator since early childhood, Emily has spent the majority of her time and energy making art and music. She moved to Oakland after high school to study filmmaking at CCA, then quickly returned to her roots in painting and drawing. She has always used her creations therapeutically as a direct way to express and heal herself.
Inspired by coral reefs and lush forests, Emily uses drawing, painting, sculpture and embroidery to bring her unique vision of beauty to life. This body of work is titled ‘Lumplands’, the term Emily has used to name her naturescapes and the world in which they exist. When working on paper, Emily will often lay the watercolor down first and then draw on top of it, letting the paint determine a lot of the movement and composition of the piece. Her love of repetition is quite apparent in the hyper detailed patterns that grow over each piece. Emily’s Lumplands have recently started to include imagery from the human body, making the pieces more immediately relatable and emphasizing the healing abilities of plants.
Four Barrel is a cafe and roastery that has been supporting artists with exhibitions since 2008. This exhibition is free and open to the public. Four Barrel Coffee is located at 375 Valencia Street in San Francisco, and is open daily from 7am until 8pm. Four Barrel may be reached at [email protected].
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