1504 SOUTH COAST HWY
LAGUNA BEACH, CA
Entrance on Calliope St.
(925) 408-2907
Open Thursday to Saturday from 12 to 6pm or by appointment.
EARTHLY BODIES
STELLA MARIA BAER
Neptune’s Moon Triton (2015)
EARTHLY BODIES
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Saturday, August 26, 2023
5pm to 8pm -
August 26 – October 8, 2023
We’re open Thursday to Saturday from 12pm to 6pm or by appointment.
A collection of works by contemporary artists who create with earth, mineral, and botanical pigments; featuring Stella Maria Baer, Alysha Colangeli, Heather Bird Harris, and Meg Jorgenson. Each artist's works draw from a deep connection to the land, and are made from the earth by hand. This show reveals the interconnectedness of all things: our bodies, the earth, the plants, the celestial spheres, made of one and the same elements.
Show title EARTHLY BODIES written by Stella Maria Baer.
STELLA MARIA BAER
For the past nine years, Stella Maria Baer has worked to create a body of work with three veins: paintings of moons and planets, photographs of desert landscapes, and surrealist portraits of women and children riding animals under the western sky. Her practice looks at the relationship between how we see women and how we treat land, between memory and cosmology, in paintings made from dirt and rock, in photographs of nudes in desert canyons, in the earth pigment bodies of women and children riding birds and horses at sunrise.
2015
8" diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$2,000
2015
8" diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$2,000
2020
12" diameter round
Earth and mineral pigments on cotton
$3,000
2014
20” x 24”
Watercolor on linen
$4,000
2015
11” x 14”
Watercolor on linen
$4,000
6 Oberon
2015
8” diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$3,000
7 Titania
2015
8” diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$3,000
8 Umbriel
2015
5” diameter
Watercolor on canvas
$1,000
9 Ariel
2015
5” diameter
Watercolor on canvas
$1,000
2015
24” x 36”
Watercolor and oil on canvas
$10,100
11 Life on Mars
2015
8” diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$4,000
2015
8” diameter
Watercolor on canvas
$3,000
13 Pluto Fly By
July 14th 2015
20” diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$5,700
14 Charon
10” diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$2,000
2016
24” x 30”
Watercolor and oil on linen
$6,700
16 Wolf Moon
2016
46.5” diameter round
Watercolor on wood
$14,000
2020
12” diameter round
Earth pigment and charcoal on canvas
$3,000
18 Planet Mauve
2021
12” diameter round
Earth and mineral pigments on cotton
$3,000
19 Milk Moon
2017
16" diameter round
Watercolor on canvas
$4,000
20 Mercury
2022
New Mexico dirt and micaceous rock and juniper ash on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
21 Venus
2022
New Mexico micaceous rock on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
22 Mars
2022
New Mexico mineral pigments on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
23 Jupiter
2022
New Mexico earth and mineral pigments on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
24 Saturn
2022
New Mexico earth and mineral pigments on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
25 Uranus
2022
Earth and mineral pigments on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
26 Neptune
2022
Earth and mineral pigments on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
27 Pluto
2022
New Mexico earth and mineral pigments and piñon ash on cotton
Painting 8” x 10"
Framed 11” x 13”
$1,150
ALYSHA COLANGELI
Alysha Colangeli is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores the concepts of individual and collective identities, while cultivating connections to place, memory, and the beauty found in everyday life. Based in the high desert of Northern New Mexico, Alysha's artistic practice encompasses weaving, natural dyeing, and pigment making, though she was trained as a fine artist in drawing, painting, and printmaking at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
INFORMATION
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In her patchwork pieces, Alysha combines her passion for natural dyeing with the ancient Korean textile art of Pojagi. Each patchwork piece is entirely bespoke, and can be made especially for you and your space. Inspired by the shifting sunlight in the high desert, the colors and shadows within each patchwork piece transform in the dancing light of the day.
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You can commission one of Alysha’s handmade patchwork pieces, in a custom size for your home. Once the palette, materials, and dimensions have been chosen, please allow 4-6 weeks for each bespoke piece to be created.
Disclaimer: Due to the art of natural dye, final colors may vary from samples.
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Contact us at hi@folklorestudiolaguna.com to inquire about Pojagi Patchwork Panels.
Heather Bird Harris is an artist and history educator based in Atlanta. Through painting and social practice, she engages site-specific materials to explore the throughlines between land history and environmental crises, as well as mothering in the face of climate change. Her painting practice is largely personal, meditative, and a necessary precedent for her social practice. She makes paint and ink from handfuls of site-specific earth pigments that she mixes with washes of water and synthetic color that allows her to study the interaction between land, water, and plastics on a smaller, digestible scale.
2023
22” x 30”
Clay from the artist's backyard, safflower, cherry, and turmeric inks, water and sun on Saunders 640 gsm with deckled edge
$1,000
Meg Jorgenson is an Abstract-Impressionist painter whose work is visceral in meditative storytelling. Adapting form to meaning; her body of work flourishes through the interaction of the landscape and inner realms of consciousness. With inspiration from traveling the terrain and ancient ways of painting, she gathers earth elements to create natural dyes and pigments that are the grounding energies and give essence to her practice. She embodies a rural ethos that evolves in each piece, bringing an exploration of biomorphic movement that transcends in how she layers color to create light. With ease she invites the viewer not so much to discern, as to absorb in between defined realms.
2023
25.5” x 2“ x 37.25“
Plaster, foraged clay and pigments, oil on stretched canvas with pine flute frame
$6,300
2022
61.5” x 2” x 41.5”
Earth plaster and earth pigments on stretched raw canvas with pine flute frame
$11,000
3 Eros
2023
35.5” x 2” x 54.5”
Clay dyes, earth pigments, charcoal, petals and flora bundle dye on stretched raw canvas with pine flute frame
$8,000
2023
25” x 2.5” x 31”
Clay paints, crushed terra cotta, Earth pigments, sand on stretched canvas with oak frame
$5,000