ART FWD Benefit Auction and Celebration
115 - Hughen/Starkweather
Silent Auction
Closed
$1,250
Current Bid: $725
Overtop the Riverbank (Pipe Dreams), 2022
Ink and gouache on paper
10 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches
Courtesy the artists
Hughen/Starkweather is the collaboration of artists Jennifer Starkweather and Amanda Hughen, who have worked as a team for almost 20 years. Together, they create research-based abstractions that explore the impacts of climate disruption on places where water meets land — not only the shorelines of creeks, oceans, and bays, but also aquifers, atmospheric rivers, and fog. Their work examines engineered, human-made structures that are increasingly, inextricably interwoven with natural water systems in the landscape.
Exhibitions and Commissions: Exhibitions include the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; the Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, CA; University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; and the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA. Recent large-scale works include a commission by SFMOMA at the Chase Center, San Francisco, CA; and the glass exterior and ceiling of the Union Square Central Subway Station, San Francisco, CA.
Awards and Credentials: Amanda Hughen received an MFA from UC Berkeley and has been an artist-in-residence at the DeYoung Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; The Oxbow School, Napa, CA; and Yaddo, Sarasota Springs, NY.
Jennifer Starkweather received an MFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, PA, and has been artist-in-residence at Ucross Foundation, Clearmont, WY; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME; The Oxbow School, Napa, CA; and Ragdale, Lake Forest, IL.
Hughen/Starkweather is the recipient of a 2020 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant.
The work of Hughen/Starkweather was recently featured in the MarinMOCA exhibition On Land, curated by Chris Kerr of Round Weather Gallery, June 17 – August 27, 2023.
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