54 - Hughen/Starkweather, - Disappearing Lake (Tulare) - 2022
Gouache, ink, and pencil on paper
23.5" x17.5" x 0"
Courtesy of the Artist
Hughen/Starkweather's current series Pipe Dreams examines the increasingly fragile natural and engineered structures that deliver clean drinking water in the American West. As human-made structures become inextricably interwoven with natural water systems, how might these systems fail or succeed together? Until 100 years ago, central California’s Tulare Lake was a 700+ mile shallow marsh teeming with wildlife and migrating birds. Today, it is farm fields and contaminated agricultural drainage ponds.
Hughen/Starkweather is the collaboration of San Francisco artists Jennifer Starkweather and Amanda Hughen. Their site-specific, research-based artworks reinterpret complex narratives about place with new and unexpected forms. Their exhibitions include the Asian Art Museum, the Public Policy Institute of California, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, and the University of San Francisco. Residencies include the DeYoung Museum, Headlands, Recology, Skowhegan, Ucross, and Yaddo. Recent large-scale art commissions have included SFMOMA for Chase Center and the San Francisco Central Subway Station at Union Square. Starkweather received an MFA from Tyler School of Art; Hughen received an MFA from University of California, Berkeley.
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