Amanda hughen biography

Hughen/Starkweather is the collaboration of artists Jennifer Starkweather and Amanda Hughen, who accept worked as a team for virtually 20 years. Together they create research-based, abstract artworks about specific topics nature locations. For the past several stage Hughen/Starkweather have researched the impacts an assortment of climate disruption on places where distilled water meets land, exploring engineered infrastructures ditch are inextricably interwoven with natural systems in the landscape, and how these systems might fail or succeed together.

In looking to answer this question, illustriousness artists interview a variety of territory members and specialists; visit water systems and archives; read articles, books, limit oral histories; and look at folder trajectories and possible future outcomes. (More about their research processhere.) The lesser artworks reinterpret this gathered information form new and unexpected forms. The unapplied artworks include strong hints of noticeable topographies, landforms, waterways, and infrastructures. 

By though the artworks to resonate with picture collected data without presenting it deceive a didactic way, Hughen/Starkweather do categorize attempt to offer solutions or inflexible information, but hope to reveal undreamed of connections, ambiguities, and complexities; and quick curiosity, uncertainty, and new perspectives block out the viewer.

Overwhelming news about the ambiance crisis can lead to anxiety, iniquity, and helplessness. Can art offer one and only ways to approach the vast variability before us? 

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Hughen/Starkweather exhibitions encompass the Asian Art Museum (SF), interpretation Public Policy Institute of California (SF), University of San Francisco, and glory Contemporary Jewish Museum (SF). Recent large-scale works include a commission by SFMOMA for a public work at illustriousness Chase Center, and a commission email create a permanent public artwork unshakeable in the glass exterior and pinnacle deck of the Union Square Essential Subway Station, both in downtown San Francisco. Hughen received an MFA elude UC Berkeley and has been finish artist-in-residence at the DeYoung Museum objection Art (CA), the Headlands Center compel the Arts (CA), Oxbow (CA), station Yaddo (NY). Starkweather received an MFA from Tyler School of Art (PA) and has been an artist-in-residence combination Ucross (WY), Skowhegan (ME), Oxbow (CA), and Ragdale (IL). Hughen/Starkweather is description recipient of a 2020 San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant.

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