Meghann Riepenhoff and Rebecca Solnit
Thursday, May 5, 2022 7:00 pm PDT
San Francisco Art Institute Osher Lecture Hall , 800 Chestnut St, San Francisco, CA 94133
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ABOUT THE PROGRAM
Meghann Riepenhoff's latest project Ice is a series of unique cyanotype prints made in freezing landscapes and is the subject of her newest publication of the same title. Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit, whose original essay is included in Ice, will open the evening and conversation about Riepenhoff's work and the cyanotype medium in contemporary photography.
Begun in 2015, and expanding on her earlier bodies of work—Littoral Drift and Ecotone—Riepenhoff creates her Ice cyanotypes in freezing waters, from the snow banks of Aspen to remote creeks in western Washington. With this series the artist expands her recognizable deep indigo palette and organic abstractions into an exploration of the elemental boundaries of water, both physical and metaphorical, captured on paper and made with exposures lasting several hours or days.
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About Meghann Riepenhoff
Born in Atlanta, GA, Meghann Riepenhoff is an artist based on the west coast of the United States. Her exhibitions include the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Denver Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Yossi Milo Gallery, Fraenkel Gallery, Jackson Fine Art, Haines Gallery, and the Aperture Foundation. Publications include ArtForum, The New York Times, Time Magazine Lightbox, The Guardian, Foam, Oprah Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, and Wired Magazine. Collections include the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Riepenhoff published her first monograph Littoral Drift + Ecotone with Radius Books and Yossi Milo Gallery, and will release her second book Ice with the same publishers in 2022. She was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts, was an affiliate at the Headlands Center for the Arts, and is a Guggenheim Fellow.
About Meghann Riepenhoff’s publications
ICE
Photography by Meghann Riepenhoff
Original Text by Rebecca Solnit
Published by Radius Books and Yossi Milo Gallery, 2022
120 pages
ISBN: 978-194218-5864
Littoral Drift + Ecotone
by Meghann Riepenhoff
Published by Radius Books and Yossi Milo Gallery, 2018
224 pages
ISBN: 978-194218-5468
About Rebecca Solnit
Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including Whose Story Is This?, Call Them By Their True Names (Winner of the 2018 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction), Cinderella Liberator, Men Explain Things to Me, The Mother of All Questions, and Hope in the Dark, and co-creator of the City of Women map, all published by Haymarket Books; a trilogy of atlases of American cities, The Faraway Nearby, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received a Guggenheim, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award). Her forthcoming memoir, Recollections of My Nonexistence, is scheduled to release in March, 2020. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she is a columnist at the Guardian and a regular contributor to Literary Hub.
About Rebecca Solnit’s publications:
Orwell's Roses
by Rebecca Solnit
Published by Viking, 2021
320 pages
ISBN: 978-059308-3369
Orwell's Roses is available for purchase: at:
Barnes & Noble
Powell's Books
IndieBound
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
by Rebecca Solnit
Published by Viking, 2020
256 pages
ISBN: 978-059308-3338
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
is available for purchase: at:
Barnes & Noble
Powell's Books
IndieBound
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