Installation image of the "40th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating 40 Years of Collecting," photo by Elia Haworth. | |
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MAIN GALLERY
40th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating 40 Years of Collecting
Curated by Louisa Gloger and Elia Haworth
This exhibition presents a cross-section of artworks from Bolinas Museum’s robust permanent collection. Through the generosity of artists and supporters, Bolinas Museum stewards a collection of artworks from the 1800s to today. In 1987, the museum’s second Director, Joyce Clements, established the Living Artists Project, known today as the museum’s Coastal Marin Artists Gallery, for artists living or working in studios between Tomales and Muir Beach. Director Linda Samuels further cultivated an appreciation of local artists. After the museum purchased its buildings, Dolores Richards dedicated one gallery to coastal Marin artists and one to the permanent collection, so coastal Marin artists are always represented at Bolinas Museum and are often the focus of our main and photography gallery exhibitions. Established in 2002 by Richards, our permanent collection includes works by significant California artists and artists from further afield who have exhibited in the museum. For this 40th anniversary exhibition, we have included new acquisitions to the collection and many works that have not recently been shown. We are fortunate to live in a region rich with talented, accomplished artists and a deeply interested and appreciative audience.
The exhibition includes works by Peter Allen, William Anders/Michael Light, Richard Blair, Ken Botto, Joyce Clements, George Demont Otis, Charles Dorman Robinson, Alfred Farnsworth, Ron Garrigues, Ilka Hartmann, Robert Harvey, Harriet Kossman, Annie Leibovitz, Irwin Manheim, Barry McGee, Arthur Okamura, Barbara Ravizza, Sally Robertson, Leah Schwartz, Randy Sexton, Lewis Watts, Ludmilla Welch, Jack Wisby, and Ido Yoshimoto.
And, in the Permanent Collection Gallery, works by Edgar Angelone, JB Blunk, Art Carpenter, Russell Chatham, Charles Eckart, Peter de Swart, Michael Gregory, Sha Sha Higby, Beth Moon, Sally Robertson, Clare Rojas, and Thaddeus Welch are currently on view.
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HERBERT PFÖSTL, through ritual and effort, 2021,Oil on wood, 8 x 10 inches, courtesy of Dmitry Martov. | |
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COASTAL MARIN ARTISTS GALLERY
Herbert Pföstl: Between Field and Firmament
Curated by Elia Haworth
Herbert Pföstl’s recent paintings are studies of the liminal—within both place and time. These “landscapes” exist between field and firmament, at the edges of thresholds, in the visible traces of vanishing forms. Pföstl takes inspiration from the geologic, and his paintings often appear lithic, as if composed of stone. The surfaces are created through an accumulation of many coats of pigment, which the artist then carefully wears away through abrasion or erasure and builds up again in cycles.
These works function as reliquaries in which Pföstl fathoms lost or departing landscapes. In its Old English iteration, “fathom” meant to embrace or encircle with one’s arms. But these paintings depict what cannot be traditionally seen or held: silent hymns of layered time, relics of light, and tectonic shifts.
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LAURA PLAGEMAN, Response to Print of Egret Rookery, Louisiana, 2010, Archival pigment print, 45 x 53 inches, courtesy of the artist. | |
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HELENE STURDIVANT MAYNE PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY
Laura Plageman: Response
Curated by Louisa Gloger
Oakland-based artist Laura Plageman creates vivid photographs of the natural world, mediated through re-photography, image layering, and collage. Recording and challenging perception are at the core of her compositions, where time is presented as an array of discontinuous, simultaneous moments. Plageman’s work conveys an imagined experience of a landscape, reflecting on the interconnectedness of nature. This exhibition combines photographs from across Plageman’s oeuvre and includes new work in her Response series.
Plageman has exhibited in galleries and institutions across the United States and internationally at venues including San Francisco’s de Young Museum, the Houston Center for Photography, and Seattle’s Photographic Center Northwest. She received her BA from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, and her MFA from California College of the Arts, where she has since held various academic appointments.
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THE FLOYD RUSSELL FAMILY HISTORY ROOM
Celebrating 40 Years of Bolinas Museum!
Curated by Elia Haworth
Along with a short history of the museum, lively photographs and publications revisit some of the exceptional exhibitions and the wonderful people that are part of the museum’s forty-year story. There are also photos from auctions, garden tours, courtyard concerts, receptions, artist talks, family events, parties, elder visits, outside tours, poetry readings, school visits, history exhibits, Hardly Strictly Mini shows, panel discussions, demonstrations, and other informative and engaging events.
ON VIEW THROUGH DECEMBER 31.
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COURTYARD EVENT
The Astonishing World in a Drop of Water with Jenny Jacox and Janai Southworth
Sunday, July 9, 2 - 4 PM
Join us to view the array of microscopic life found in a drop of water collected directly from Bolinas Lagoon. Jenny Jacox, PhD in Ocean Sciences, and artist/ naturalist/ educator Janai Southworth share their passion and deep knowledge as they provide a window into a surprisingly magnificent world with microscopes and monitor screens. Plant-like phytoplankton are the base of the oceanic food chain and create 50% of our planet’s oxygen. Grazing on the phytoplankton are microscopic animals called zooplankton. Zooplankton include the tiny larvae of future crabs, mussels, jellyfish, and more. This experience will fascinate children and adults and expand your vision and understanding of our blue planet.
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Image: JENNY JACOX, Sun (centric diatom) and Moon (the dinoflagellate Pyrocystis lunula), 2021, Photograph on metal, 11 x 16 inches, courtesy of the artist. | | |
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COURTYARD EVENT
Keith Hansen Book Signing: The Birds of Point Reyes
Saturday, July 15, 2 - 4 PM
Free and Open to All
Please join us in the museum’s courtyard outside Hansen’s Wildlife Gallery to celebrate his brand-new book, Birds of Point Reyes (Heyday, 2023). Here at the edge of land and sea, on the Point Reyes Peninsula, we witness the great bird migration of the Pacific Flyway. In this book, focused on 27 iconic species ranging from the fearsome Peregrine Falcons to tiny Rock Wrens, Hansen shares vast knowledge and acute observation through his extraordinary illustrations and lyrical, humorous, and fact-filled writing. Whether you are a general nature lover, passionate birder, or casual observer, this book will enrich how you experience the world.
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NEW ITEMS IN OUR ONLINE STORE | |
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Our Online Store is refreshed and filled with items made by locals and those with roots here. Here are a few examples of the offerings:
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Sally Robertson, Museum Entrance (detail), 2023, Archival Giclee print.
11 x 17 inches, limited edition of 20.
$250
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Galaxy Flower Lab Forest Bathing Bath Salt Soak
$38
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Brass cast bowl and tiny spoon set by Unearthen.
All pieces are made to order.
$200
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Handblown cups by Bolinas glass artist Cher Stone.
$45
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The mission of Bolinas Museum is to collect, preserve, and exhibit the art and history of coastal Marin and present exhibitions and events that provide cultural enrichment and inspiration to our community and visitors alike. | | | | |
