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Dolby Chadwick Gallery

March 4 - March 28, 2010

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210 Post Street Suite 205 San Francisco, CA 94108
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Anatomy of a Future Forest Kirsten Stolle "Orbis Erythromite," 2009, 30x22, wax, oil, acrylic, graphite collage on ragboard
Opening reception: March 4 from 5:30-7:30 Dolby Chadwick Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition “Anatomy of a Future Forest” by Kirsten Stolle. For the past 18 months, Stolle has been taking on the role of a future naturalist and documentarian: discovering, cataloging and visually recording potential new generations of flora. Continuing to develop her contemporary vision of an odd, unsettling, and sometimes humorous account of the future, she visually explores the issue of climate change and its potential ramifications on plant life. To re-imagine these hybrids of the future, she has combined natural forms with visuals found in scientific journals and old-world imagery to create mixed media paintings that resemble oversized botanical and pseudo-scientific journal pages. Her imagined terrestrial worlds, both familiar and slightly unnerving, suggest a connection to these past scholarly works that attempted to identify, classify and illustrate plant life. Plants appear to be in motion, beckoning, pulling, propelling forward, and recoiling in fear. We are unclear of their relationships with each other, but are aware that their ecological balance is being disturbed. It is her hope that this series will educate, inspire, provoke and bring about some type of individual change in people’s stewardship of our planet.
Anatomy of a Future Forest Kirsten Stolle "Cruris Constrictum", 2009, 30x22, wax, oil, acrylic, graphite collage on ragboard
Anatomy of a Future Forest Kirsten Stolle "Colum Enneaphyllis", 2009, 30x22, wax, oil, acrylic, graphite collage on ragboard
Anatomy of a Future Forest Kirsten Stolle "Spinaeum Propello", 2009, 30x22, wax, oil, acrylic, graphite collage on ragboard
Anatomy of a Future Forest Kirsten Stolle "Abacus Pennaceo", 2009, 30x22, wax, oil, acrylic, graphite, collage on ragboard