Artist Christopher Reiger’s “field guides” are on view at the Laguna Environmental Center in Santa Rosa until April 28.
An Artist Goes Bird-Swatching
March 22, 2023 •
Art & Design
Genre-Defying Art: Textiles and Maps
January 3, 2023 •
If you’re like most people and have never thought about textiles and maps at the same time, together, then you just might be the target audience for artist Linda Gass. Add climate change, land use, and Bay Area waterways into the mix, and it’s safe to say her work is unlike anything else out there.
Naturalist’s Notebook: Thrush Henge
January 3, 2023 •
You can use thrushes as a sort of seasonal calendar, as they fly in and out of the Bay Area.
Cheeky Bobcat Kitten, Owl on the Hunt: How a Young Wildlife Photographer Gets the Goods
December 1, 2022 •
You don’t have to go far. But it helps to spend all your spare time in the woods. That’s what Vishal Subramanyan, 20, does.
An Invitation to Imagine Utopia, and See What Sticks
October 17, 2022 •
Two murals at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in Novata are the work of San Francisco painter Elisheva Biernoff. By choosing from a library of magnets, visitors to The Tools Are In Your Hands can decide where to place depictions of native species, agriculture, and the elements of the built environment.
Landscape Paintings From Within
June 22, 2022 •
Shara Mays’ solo exhibition, Paint. All. The. Things., is on view at Chandran Gallery in San Francisco from August 4 through September 1, 2022.
The David Brower Center Tries to Move Beyond a White Aesthetic in Nature Art
March 30, 2022 •
Past exhibits at the Brower Center have primarily featured white artists, and in turn, this has offered viewers an idea of nature that tends to favor the nonhuman or completely excludes humans.
How Laura Cunningham Became a Signature Artist for California’s Former Landscapes
February 10, 2022 •
What did natural California look like before the arrival of Europeans? Laura Cunningham paints it.
Apocalypse Not: Confronting Extinction with Art
January 4, 2022 •
The brown pelican, which nearly went extinct but then recovered, is a main character in a new art installation in San José.
Sixty-Four Artists Took Pieces of a Fallen Valley Oak and Turned it Into This Exhibition
October 28, 2021 •
“If a Tree Falls: Art of the Boundary Oak” opens Saturday, October 30 at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek.