ON VIEW JUNE 10 - AUGUST 6
OPENING RECEPTION
SATURDAY, JUNE 10
3 PM ARTIST TALKS / 4 - 5 PM RECEPTION
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40th Anniversary Exhibition: Celebrating 40 Years of Collecting

Curated by Louisa Gloger and Elia Haworth

This exhibition presents a cross-section of artworks from Bolinas Museum’s robust permanent collection. Through the generosity of artists and supporters, Bolinas Museum stewards a collection of artworks from the 1800s to today. In 1987, the museum’s second Director, Joyce Clements, established the Living Artists Project, known today as the museum’s Coastal Marin Artists Gallery, for artists living or working in studios between Tomales and Muir Beach. Director Linda Samuels further cultivated an appreciation of local artists. After the museum purchased its buildings, Dolores Richards dedicated one gallery to coastal Marin artists and one to the permanent collection, so coastal Marin artists are always represented at Bolinas Museum and are often the focus of our main and photography gallery exhibitions. Established in 2002 by Richards, our permanent collection includes works by significant California artists and artists from further afield who have exhibited in the museum. For this 40th anniversary exhibition, we have included new acquisitions to the collection and many works that have not recently been shown. We are fortunate to live in a region rich with talented, accomplished artists and a deeply interested and appreciative audience.

We are offering a limited edition print of Sally Robertson's lovely watercolor, Museum Entrance (shown above). You can purchase a print via our online store or at the museum.

COASTAL MARIN ARTISTS GALLERY

Herbert Pföstl: Between Field and Firmament

Curated by Elia Haworth

Herbert Pföstl’s recent paintings are studies of the liminal—within both place and time. These “landscapes” exist between field and firmament, at the edges of thresholds, in the visible traces of vanishing forms. Pföstl takes inspiration from the geologic, and his paintings often appear lithic, as if composed of stone. The surfaces are created through an accumulation of many coats of pigment, which the artist then carefully wears away through abrasion or erasure and builds up again in cycles. 

These works function as reliquaries in which Pföstl fathoms lost or departing landscapes. In its Old English iteration, “fathom” meant to embrace or encircle with one’s arms. But these paintings depict what cannot be traditionally seen or held: silent hymns of layered time, relics of light, and tectonic shifts. 

HELENE STURDIVANT MAYNE PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY

Laura Plageman: Response

Curated by Louisa Gloger

Oakland-based artist Laura Plageman creates vivid photographs of the natural world, mediated through re-photography, image layering, and collage. Recording and challenging perception are at the core of her compositions, where time is presented as an array of discontinuous, simultaneous moments. Plageman’s work conveys an imagined experience of a landscape, reflecting on the interconnectedness of nature. This exhibition combines photographs from across Plageman’s oeuvre and includes new work in her Response series.

Plageman has exhibited in galleries and institutions across the United States and internationally at venues including San Francisco’s de Young Museum, the Houston Center for Photography, and Seattle’s Photographic Center Northwest. She received her BA from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, and her MFA from California College of the Arts, where she has since held various academic appointments.

THE FLOYD RUSSELL FAMILY HISTORY ROOM 

Celebrating 40 Years of Bolinas Museum!

Curated by Elia Haworth

Along with a short history of the museum, lively photographs and publications revisit some of the exceptional exhibitions and the wonderful people that are part of the museum’s forty-year story. There are also photos from auctions, garden tours, courtyard concerts, receptions, artist talks, family events, parties, elder visits, outside tours, poetry readings, school visits, history exhibits, Hardly Strictly Mini shows, panel discussions, demonstrations, and other informative and engaging events.

ON VIEW THROUGH DECEMBER 31.

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