Out at Sea | A Group Exhibition Featuring Lauren Bartone, Dora Somosi, Lena Wolff & Diane DallasKidd

The diverse pieces included in Out at Sea span from photography to textile work, brought together by a shared interest in handiwork and a reverence for botanical materials. While Bartone, DallasKidd, and Wolff are local to the San Francisco Bay Area—Marin and Berkeley, respectively—Somosi joins from the East Coast, living and working in Brooklyn, NY. These four artists draw inspiration from quiltmaking, weaving, and the land, nimbly displayed in Bartone’s hand-dyed and sewn linen and cotton canvases, DallasKidd’s thread-bound works, Somosi’s embroidered cyanotypes, and Wolff’s hand-cut collage. A shared love of blue hues also threads through the works included in Out at Sea: they compliment each in their material structure, offering a measured antidote to aimlessness. Wayfinding icons—stars, moons, and grids—appear across the works in Out at Sea, which are anything but adrift. Bound by blue hues, a shared appreciation for handcraft, and a dedication to material structure, these pieces evoke progression and sureness, suggesting ways to navigate the seemingly current, constant, and collective feeling of losing one’s bearings.

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