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Living Proof:
flora, fauna & fossil fuels


SPACE 151, Levy Art + Architecture, San Francisco, California
January 13 – February 25, 2018



Artists include: Sharon Beals, Kevin Cooley, Shane DuBay, Mia Feuer, Carl Fuldner, James Griffith, Roger Hangarter, Jenny Kendler, Allison Kudla, Philip Andrew Lewis, Denise Newman, Sasha Petrenko, Gail Wight & Nami Yamamoto




Digital Nature:
Techno-Botantical Art in the Garden


Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden
October 2016



In the Labyrinth     Chris Doyle, 2016
Sleepwalkers (Night Blooming Cereus)     Courtney Egan, 2013


Swamp Gas     David Sullivan, 2009

Still Life     Andrew McKee & Shirley Watts, with Nathanael Prunet & Steve Craig, 2016

Hydraphilia    Gail Wight, 2009

Lagerstroemia Indica     John Carpenter & Justin Shrake, 2016

Smog House    Kevin Cooley, 2016

El Camino Real    Jeff Cain, 2011

Blacklisted: A Planted Allegory (Asylum)    Jenny Yurshansky, 2015

Anatomy of Poem    Rebecca Ruige Xu, Pablo Palacio, & Sean Hong-Sheng Zhai, 2012
The History of Trees     Sandra Osborne, 2016
Lessons from the Forest (with Nomadic Projection Unit #1)    
Sasha Petrenko, 2016



On October 21 & 22nd, 2016, Natural Discourse and the Los Angeles County Arboretum presented a spectacular evening of animation, light and sound in the garden. A group of acclaimed contemporary artists were invited to project their work onto the rich canvas of the botanical garden. With themes as diverse as invasive exotics, natural pigments, plant tropism and an ancient Chinese poem, these digital and video works explored the intersection of horticulture and technology. Sited within the Arboretum’s collections, the art created surprise and delight in one of LA’s most treasured public gardens.

Watch the short film ︎




Natural Discourse:
Artists, Architects, Scientists, & Poets in the Garden


University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley
2013

Fogcatcher     Nami Yamamoto

Under the Influence     Gail Wight

Sol Grotto      Ronald Rael & Virginia San Fratello

The Delight of Earthly Gardens     Matthew Suib & Nadia Hironaka

Shade     Todd Gilens

Botanica Recognita     Denise Newman & Hazel White

O Music of Eyes     Shirley Alexandra Watts & Deborah O’Grady

Light Portraits     MB Maher

Human:Nature     Jane Anne Flint
Water Pavillion     Mary Anne Friel







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