Located in the 1957 Veterans Memorial Building, Sebastopol Center For The Arts (SebArts) has a whole lot going on. Today we were there for the current exhibition: EXTRACTION.
"The international juried exhibition, in collaboration with the CODEX Foundation, brings together galleries and museums worldwide on this project. Sebastopol Center for the Arts is honored to be a participant. The exhibit dates are October 23 - November 28, 2021"
Maryly Snow, Tangled Climate Measurement Time
Bob Nugent, Intrusao #1
Lissa Herschleb, Speak to Her - A Portal to Mother Nature
Sally Briggs' Bees' Devastation hit me as I am a big fan of the bees."The insect population is in major decline. My installation focuses on the colony collapse of bees and the effect on the whole world's food chain with the lack of these great pollinators. 2 linen panels illustrate the devastating change of habitat and the lack of bee friendly gardens and the impact of global warming. The other panels call out for change... plant a bee friendly garden etc. The morose pile of dead bees reflect fires, mites and bad pesticides causing deaths to our bees."
Renee Owen, Firestormed-Atlas of a Lost Neighborhood
Robin Dintiman's Close To The Bone: We Are was a large piece constructed from: found objects from giant storms; urethane foam; and varnish.
It included the poem:
"Departing, partly incomprehensible, Sebaldian in it's penetrating Mourning, We are.
Earth, our return to point of departure, vanishing.
With awe, quaking our limbs apart from consciously
knowing in the bones.
We know slipping on leaves comes though. Solastalgia carves into the heart, a naming, aids
the raw
open wound."
[I admit I had to look up Sebaldian and Solastalgia]
Andrea McDonald describes her Emergency Blanket, "Hurtling toward the reality of extreme weather events and uninhabitable spaces, amid a social climate of mass indifference and blind allegiance to neoliberal ideology, I imagine us arriving at a moment of panic, where our only option is to gather up the scraps that led to our demise and cloak ourselves in them as an attempt to survive."Austin Buckingham's series of three Monotype prints, called Science of Chaos, Part 1, Part II, and Part III addresses the potency of science, chaos and chemistry in our lives. "Humans throughout history have grappled with the chaos in their minds and in the environment around them; looking for ways to understand it. We have an intense need to make meaning out of a possibly meaningless universe. It is the evolutionary imperative of our survival."Living in the Shadows of Reality was created by Olivia Dancel (Comanche/Yaqui), an artist whose work reflects who she is as a Native American woman with deep connections to the natural world and her cultural traditions.One of my favorite works, based on its uniqueness, was Holly Downing's, California Burns. Consisting of eight, 12” x 12” canvases, one half is an excellent example of trompe l'oeil.One panel is a burned fabric, retrieved from a recent wildfire and the other, its exact copy is an oil painting with such depth and richness, it was difficult to determine which was which. It was an interesting ploy to get the observer to really study the piece.EXTRACTION's goal is to promote debate about a diverse range of climate challenges, with SebArts aiming to isolate problems, seek solutions, and communicate potential messages of hope. I believe it attained its goal as it got museum goers dialoging. It is exhibits like this which raise awareness. While solutions are more difficult to reach, at least the problems are being discussed. It was a thought provoking, and very interesting, explore.
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