Wetlands Take Over
Title: Wetlands Take Over
Year: 2013
Dimensions: 30” h x 30” w x ¼” d installed
Silk crepe de chine, silk broadcloth, silk Indian Doupioni, silk dyes, water soluble resist, polyester batting, rayon/viscose and polyester embroidery thread
This artwork is an imagined aerial landscape of wetlands in San Francisco Bay near Redwood City. Impatient with human delays in restoring the industrial salt ponds, the wetlands are taking over and restoring themselves. The patterns of the wetland channels are based on historical aerial photographs taken before the salt ponds were constructed.
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Detail Image of: Wetlands Take Over
Techniques: silk painting, machine quilting
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October 9, 2021 – January 9, 2022 Art on the Edge: From Extraction to Restoration and Regeneration, Peninsula Museum of Art, San Bruno, CA
September 19, 2019 – January 17, 2021 Fragile Blue Marble, Artik Art & Architecture, San Jose, CA.
June 12 - September 8, 2018, Reticulation, Bullseye Projects Gallery, Emeryville, CA.
May 28 – September 10, 2015 Security Question, Hazel Wolf Gallery, Berkeley, CA.
Sep 5 – Oct 30, 2014 Bird’s Eye View: Aerial Art, Gallery at 48 Natoma, Folsom, CA.
April 21 – July 16, 2017 Three Left-Coast Artists, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA.
February 1 – March 17, 2016 Burning Ice, Euphrat Museum of Art, Cupertino, CA.