Undersea Colonies Alisa Golden 60 x 43.5 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT Vivid colors in a newspaper article opened a world previously unknown to me. Deep in the Pacific Ocean, where plates collide below the cold, earth’s kitchen [...]

2050 Judith Quinn Garnett 50 x 41 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT 2018 began with the daunting reality that China would no longer accept plastic recycling from the US due to the comingled abundance of contaminated waste. I [...]

Splash Caryl Bryer Fallert-Gentry 41 x 41 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT In June of 2018 we took a photographic expedition to the north end of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. We spent two twelve-hour days on a [...]

The Burning Sea Phyllis Cullen 33 x 38 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT A photo I took from a boat 10 feet from the lava rushing into the sea was my inspiration to depict the tumultuous events defining [...]

Sea Change Judith Content 54 x 22 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT A sea change isn’t a modest change, but something that no longer resembles what it once was. If rising temperatures continue and increasingly massive Pacific storms [...]

Requiem Barbara Confer 25 x 36 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT On the North Coast, many old oak trees have become victims of a disease known as Sudden Oak Death, a sickness brought in to the state on [...]

Colors of Melting Glaciers Sharon Carvalho 40.5 x 32 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT Colors of Melting Glaciers is second in a series of works providing a visual narrative to accelerating environmental damage. Glaciers are 10 percent of [...]

Estuary - Anaheim Back Bay Bonnie Bucknam 60 x 30 inches 2014 ARTIST STATEMENT I grew up in Southern California where oil production sometimes blended into the environment. The estuary was a place where shorebirds flourished among [...]

In My Wake Alice Beasley 56.5 x 37.5 inches 2018 ARTIST STATEMENT We all know our oceans are “drowning” in our packaging. But this exhibition has forced me to recognize that ocean pollution isn’t just “somebody else’s [...]