Pacific Rise: Ocean Health

The Bolinas Museum writes:

"Pacific Rise: Ocean Health expresses both urgency and hope by highlighting the work of visionary artists, scientists, citizens, and organizations. Through painting, photography, multi-media, sculpture, and academic research, the exhibition focuses on the wonder of the marine world, the current age of destructive human impact on the planet—the Anthropocene epoch—and ideas that can empower us as individuals to take responsibility for our daily choices, and be proactive voices for changing our collective human behavior."

Co-curated by Louisa Glober and Elia Haworth.

Pacific Rise: Ocean Health is presented in the main and photo galleries and through out the museum, where ocean related themes are explored. The Coastal Marin Artists Gallery features Laurie Mahan Sawyer: Seeing the Unseen. In the History Room among the many artifacts there are graphic photos of the effect of the oil spill in Bolinas Lagoon. The Collection Gallery has been curated to feature beach and ocean images from the museum permanent collection.

We are pleased to be included in this thoughtful exhibition with a such an illustrious group of artists that is text-rich with the voices of scientist writers and experts. 

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Bryant Austin, Brown Cannon III, Sally K. Fairfax, Tess Felix, Elizabeth Fenwick, Keith Hansen, Steve N. G. Howell, Joe Hoyt, Josie Iselin, Jenny Jacox, Chris Jordan, Guillermo H. Kelly, Judith Selby Lang & Richard Lang, Ellen Litwiller, Ethan Okamura, Deborah Oropallo & Andy Rappaport, Laura Plageman, Lina Prairie, Cara Romero, Camille Seaman, Andy Segal, Joseph Siedman, Janai Southworth, Nancy Stein, John Warzybok, Elizabeth Weber, Chelsea Ryoko Wong, and more.

PARTICIPATING SCIENCE WRITERS: Biret Adden, Sarah Allen, Bruce Bowser, Sally K. Fairfax, Peter Gleckler, Keith Hansen, Burr Heneman, Steve Howell, Josie Iselin, Jenny Jacox, Mike Jacox, Judith Selby Lang & Richard Lang, Joe Mueller, Hawk Rosales, Terry Sawyer, Jennifer Stock, Michael Stocker, and more.

In the History Room our print Widening Gyre

In the Photography Gallery:

Pacify fashioned from the remains of a baby binky and tiparillo tips strung like pearls to shape the ring of the necklace. Kid pacifiers. Adult pacifiers. 

Glad to be in the fine company of Chris Jordan's photograph of an albatross from his powerful series Midway:Message from the Gyre.

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