Lay Bare

Shown at The Tint Gallery at 149 Gough St, San Francisco, CA 94102

April 14th - June 3rd, 2022

All work is sold through Tint Gallery

The last couple of years have forced many of us to look inward, to figure out what matters, to confront our anxieties. What results is art that strips away all pretense, that asks what happens when we lay bare our deepest thoughts, what happens when the materials we use reveal what is at the core of the natural world that surrounds us.

Grasses, flowers, fennel, lavender, various cover crops, and dried leaves are collected along the Russian River, along roadsides, at friend’s farms, and in yards that are then added to the papermaking process to create color gradients ranging from light neutrals of the dryer materials to richer greens or pinks from wildflowers. During the pandemic, the continued drought in California the dried plants became even more noticeable as the trees on the hills began to look strained. Compelled to collect plants that caught my eye, I made paper and sculptures striving to capture the colors and textures of the affected landscape, to acknowledge the results of climate change.