California Society of Printmakers

Extraction: Response to the changing world environment

Gallery Route ONe, Point Reyes, CA

Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA

April – August, 2021

Curatorial statement

The California Society of Printmakers is pleased to announce a multi-venue exhibition to take place conjointly at Gallery Route One in Point Reyes, CA and the Sanchez Art Center in Pacifica, CA next summer from April through August 2021. Both galleries align with and promote our mission to provide a space for artists exploring new directions in contemporary print methods. We are also proud to report that Dana Harris Seeger, an award winning local printmaker and co-founder of the School of Visual Philosophy, has agreed to serve as juror.

Believing artists can be messengers and have purpose through recording world events, we are inspired to create these two forums for us to show our expression through various printmaking techniques. Many of our members currently work on environmentally conscious subjects in their practice and now even more are feeling called by recent challenging events to join the conversation. This exhibition will allow us a platform to artistically communicate concerns about the future of our changing world environment. 

“The Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 triggered our fledgling art organization to start a yearly series of exhibitions focused on threats to the environment, both global and local. Since the summer of 1989, Gallery Route One has committed to exhibiting artists whose work examines environmental issues in three exhibitions yearly. We have also organized workshops, panel talks and multi-venue events connected to these environmentally focused exhibitions.”

 —Gallery Route One, Zea Morvitz and Mary Mountcastle Eubank, Co-Directors, assisted by Betsy Kellas.

“With an interest in bringing home the connection between the world’s changing climate, stemming from the extraction and burning of fossil fuels, to the escalating need for the community to address the impacts including sea level rise, Sanchez Art Center is thrilled to collaborate with the California Society of Printmakers on an exhibition for
Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss.” 

—Sanchez Art Center, Cindy Abbott, Director, assisted by Janet Barker.

Jami Taback, President, California Society of Printmakers, Press Release, 2020, with Karen Gallagher Iverson, Cynthia Rand Thompson, Ashley Rodriguez Reed.