Opening Reception March 8, 3-5pm, Artist Talk April 27, 1:30pm, Open Th-Sun, 11-4pm through June 1
Second Nature features work by three Northern California artists: Annette Goodfriend, Ruth Tabancay, and Esther Traugot. Straddling the line between art and science, these artists craft dream-like representations of the natural world. Using varied media, ranging from organic materials such as insects, urchin shells to industrial steel and rubber, Goodfriend, Tabancay, and Traugot examine the changes human activity has wrought upon the world, and the need to better care for all the planet's creatures.
Working with epoxy, resin, rubber, wax, and plaster, Annette Goodfriend creates sculptures that explore human anatomy, hybridized or contrasted with non-human animal or plant forms. Goodfriend's works depict an oceanic world in retreat: starfish crawling on human finger-like limbs, sea life held in anthropomorphic grips, an ambulatory kelp forest. Goodfriend's work explores human interdependence with our oceans and seas, as warming waters threaten this fragile ecosystem.
With a background in bacteriology and medicine, Ruth Tabancay's work combines textile techniques with an interest in environmental issues. Using materials as varied as tea bags, thread, yarn, beeswax, and sugar, Tabancay stitches micro-organisms digesting plastic, coral reefs of plastic medical waste, and macro colonies of the bacteria that is on us and in us.
Esther Traugot grew up in an idealistic farming community during the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970's, an experience which influences the relationship between herself and the natural world on view in her work. Stitching with her own hand-dyed golden yarns, she crochets wrappings in and around found natural objects - bees, trees, sea urchin shells - nurturing, protecting, and making them whole again.
Free
Presented by di Rosa Downtown.
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Second Nature features work by three Northern California artists: Annette Goodfriend, Ruth Tabancay, and Esther Traugot. Straddling the line between art and science, these artists craft dream-like representations of the natural world. Using varied media, ranging from organic materials such as insects, urchin shells to industrial steel and rubber, Goodfriend, Tabancay, and Traugot examine the changes human activity has wrought upon the world, and the need to better care for all the planet's creatures.
Working with epoxy, resin, rubber, wax, and plaster, Annette Goodfriend creates sculptures that explore human anatomy, hybridized or contrasted with non-human animal or plant forms. Goodfriend's works depict an oceanic world in retreat: starfish crawling on human finger-like limbs, sea life held in anthropomorphic grips, an ambulatory kelp forest. Goodfriend's work explores human interdependence with our oceans and seas, as warming waters threaten this fragile ecosystem.
With a background in bacteriology and medicine, Ruth Tabancay's work combines textile techniques with an interest in environmental issues. Using materials as varied as tea bags, thread, yarn, beeswax, and sugar, Tabancay stitches micro-organisms digesting plastic, coral reefs of plastic medical waste, and macro colonies of the bacteria that is on us and in us.
Esther Traugot grew up in an idealistic farming community during the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970's, an experience which influences the relationship between herself and the natural world on view in her work. Stitching with her own hand-dyed golden yarns, she crochets wrappings in and around found natural objects - bees, trees, sea urchin shells - nurturing, protecting, and making them whole again.
Free
Presented by di Rosa Downtown.
Opening Reception March 8, 3-5pm, Artist Talk April 27, 1:30pm, Open Th-Sun, 11-4pm through June 1
Second Nature features work by three Northern California artists: Annette Goodfriend, Ruth Tabancay, and Esther Traugot. Straddling the line between art and science, these artists craft dream-like representations of the natural world. Using varied media, ranging from organic materials such as insects, urchin shells to industrial steel and rubber, Goodfriend, Tabancay, and Traugot examine the changes human activity has wrought upon the world, and the need to better care for all the planet's creatures.
Working with epoxy, resin, rubber, wax, and plaster, Annette Goodfriend creates sculptures that explore human anatomy, hybridized or contrasted with non-human animal or plant forms. Goodfriend's works depict an oceanic world in retreat: starfish crawling on human finger-like limbs, sea life held in anthropomorphic grips, an ambulatory kelp forest. Goodfriend's work explores human interdependence with our oceans and seas, as warming waters threaten this fragile ecosystem.
With a background in bacteriology and medicine, Ruth Tabancay's work combines textile techniques with an interest in environmental issues. Using materials as varied as tea bags, thread, yarn, beeswax, and sugar, Tabancay stitches micro-organisms digesting plastic, coral reefs of plastic medical waste, and macro colonies of the bacteria that is on us and in us.
Esther Traugot grew up in an idealistic farming community during the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970's, an experience which influences the relationship between herself and the natural world on view in her work. Stitching with her own hand-dyed golden yarns, she crochets wrappings in and around found natural objects - bees, trees, sea urchin shells - nurturing, protecting, and making them whole again.
Free
Presented by di Rosa Downtown.
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Second Nature features work by three Northern California artists: Annette Goodfriend, Ruth Tabancay, and Esther Traugot. Straddling the line between art and science, these artists craft dream-like representations of the natural world. Using varied media, ranging from organic materials such as insects, urchin shells to industrial steel and rubber, Goodfriend, Tabancay, and Traugot examine the changes human activity has wrought upon the world, and the need to better care for all the planet's creatures.
Working with epoxy, resin, rubber, wax, and plaster, Annette Goodfriend creates sculptures that explore human anatomy, hybridized or contrasted with non-human animal or plant forms. Goodfriend's works depict an oceanic world in retreat: starfish crawling on human finger-like limbs, sea life held in anthropomorphic grips, an ambulatory kelp forest. Goodfriend's work explores human interdependence with our oceans and seas, as warming waters threaten this fragile ecosystem.
With a background in bacteriology and medicine, Ruth Tabancay's work combines textile techniques with an interest in environmental issues. Using materials as varied as tea bags, thread, yarn, beeswax, and sugar, Tabancay stitches micro-organisms digesting plastic, coral reefs of plastic medical waste, and macro colonies of the bacteria that is on us and in us.
Esther Traugot grew up in an idealistic farming community during the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970's, an experience which influences the relationship between herself and the natural world on view in her work. Stitching with her own hand-dyed golden yarns, she crochets wrappings in and around found natural objects - bees, trees, sea urchin shells - nurturing, protecting, and making them whole again.
Free
Presented by di Rosa Downtown.
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