Artists: Anne Beck, Barbara Boissevain, Ginger Burrell, Judith Selby Lang, Richard Lang, Kent Manske, Michelle Wilson, Nanette Wylde
Gallery Route One, September 13 - October 20, 2019
Point Reyes, California
pdf Gallery Guide for Eco Echo at Gallery Route One
ARTLab at Cubberly, September 15 - 23, 2018
Palo Alto, California
Eco Echo: Art and Environment Laboratory
with a CoLABorative screen printing event, offered free during the opening reception, a
Kokedama hanging art garden workshop, and more!
WORKS/San José, March 3 - April 15, 2018
pdf Gallery Guide for Eco Echo at WORKS San José
Anne Beck works collaboratively and independently in a variety of media from painting to
print and book making to public intervention. Broadly, she is exploring the roles of
amateur naturalist and lay surveyor of the current landscape--collecting specimens and
recording data, cataloguing that which seems useful, and investigating further that which
seems impermeable. This is all in the context of envisioning a sustainable path forward
for herself and the planet, which is often a playful exercise in the face of absurd and
complex circumstance. Beck has received residency awards from the Virginia Center of
Creative Arts, Can Serrat in El Bruc, Spain, Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Schwandorf,
Germany, was Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University, and is a 2015
recipient of the Fath Scholarship for Artists and Artisans of the Book from the Rare Book
School in Charlottesville, Virginia.
annebeckprojects.com
Ginger Burrell is an artist and teacher. She often collaborates with her
husband, Greg, who is adept at U-turns because there is something that really needs
photographed. She has her BFA in Photography from San José State University. She teaches
book arts at the Palo Alto Art Center and in her home studio. Ginger's primary medium is
artist books. Her work includes photography, monotype and composite imagery and explores
a range of topics from the personal, to the political, to the universal. She has exhibited
nationally and internationally and her books are held in private and public collections.
www.gingerburrell.com
Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang (as a collaborative
team) have been visiting Kehoe Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California
since 1999. They have rambled 1000 meters of tideline of this one beach hundreds of times
to gather plastic debris washing out of the Pacifc Ocean, and from this one beach have
collected over two tons of material. By carefully collecting and "curating" the bits of
plastic, the Langs fashion it into works of art that matter-of-factly show, with minimal
artifice, the material as it is. The viewer is often surprised that this colorful stuff
is the thermoplastic junk of our throwaway culture.
www.beachplastic.com
www.plasticforever.blogspot.com
Kent Manske creates images and symbols to inquire, process, manage,
convey and assign meaning to ideas about human existence. He uses traditional and
digital printmaking processes to create one-of-a-kind and editioned prints, books and
art objects. His work is in many collections including The Fine Arts Museums of
San Francisco and The Oakland Museum of California. Manske has an MFA from The School of
the Art Institute of Chicago.
preneo.org/kent
Michelle Wilson is a papermaker, printmaker, book and installation artist.
She is also one-half of the ongoing collaborative, political art team BOOK BOMBS.
She has exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally. Her work is in signifcant
international collections. She is a past Artist-in-Residence at the David and Julia
White Colony in Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica, the Jentel Artist Residency Program.
Grants received include a Puffin Foundation Grant, a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Project Streaming Grant, and an Artist-Investigator Grant from San Francisco's Triangle
Arts Lab. Creative Capital designated her as an "On Our Radar" artist in 2015.
www.michellewilsonprojects.com
California born, Nanette Wylde is an interdisciplinary artist, writer
and cultural worker making socially reflective, and often language-based works of hybrid media.
Wylde's interests include: language, personality, difference, beliefs, systems, ideas,
movement, re ection, identity, perceptions, structures, stories, socialization,
definitions, context, memory, experience, change, the natural world, and residue.
Wylde has a BA is in Behavioral Science from San José State University. Her MFA is
in Interactive Multimedia and Printmaking from Ohio State University. She is Professor
Emerita of Art and Art History at California State University, Chico.
preneo.org/nwylde