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
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
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
What did natural California look like before the arrival of Europeans? Laura Cunningham paints it.
Apocalypse Not: Confronting Extinction with Art
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
“If a Tree Falls: Art of the Boundary Oak” opens Saturday, October 30 at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek.
Look For These Bay Area Species in Fall 2021
This fall is one to look for change. During what will hopefully be the last dry months of the driest two-year stretch in recorded California history, how are species responding? What do you see and not see? How does it compare to the past?
“Slow Down and Open Up” On a Soundwalk Through Golden Gate Park
Ellen Reid SOUNDWALK is a free, GPS-enabled app that covers much of the eastern half of Golden Gate Park.
“A Picture of the World You Want to Inhabit”: Artist Tom Killion’s California Nature
When thick brown clouds of smoke settled into the sky above Point Reyes National Seashore in fall 2020, the artist Tom Killion began packing his car with framed prints he’d made over the past four decades, along with thousands of … Read more
Sculpting California, Post-Fire
Artist Ashwini Bhat reckons with intensifying blazes in her adopted home in Sonoma County