Opening Reception: Nov 7, 2025, 5-7pm
Closing Reception: Jan 4, 2026, 3-5pm
A themed portfolio project with members of the California Society of Printmakers as part of Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, an international, multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention to provoke societal change by exposing and interrogating the negative social and environmental consequences of industrialized natural resource extraction.
In the year 2021, twenty-one artists each completed an edition of twenty-eight hand-pulled prints on 11 x 14 inch paper, for exchange among participants with seven sets (editions 1 through 7) designated for museum, library, or archive placement.
Curatorial Statement by Summer Ventis
"Out on the margins ... we live in a distorted mirror image of the center, which perceives our ‘nature’ as primarily resource. Here negative space can be more important than what’s constructed from its deported materials elsewhere." - Lucy Lippard, Undermining
Our current cultural and political climate often encourages us to think of ourselves and our surroundings as commodities, to focus on maximizing what we can take from our lands, our selves, and each other. In Undermining, Lucy Lippard describes the effects of mineral extraction in the American West. She could just as easily be describing countless other interactions among people, or between people and our surroundings. The same kind of extraction and resulting alienation happens when the products of industrial agriculture are exported to distant lands, when tourism distorts the spaces and peoples it purports to honor, or when corporations monetize our labor, our attention, and our data. Participants were asked to consider the kinds of extraction in which we engage and their lasting effects on our sense of place and our sense of ourselves — what do we gain from mining all we can from the land? From each other? What forms do these extractions take? How are we enriched and how are we diminished?
Artists and Titles:
Arturo Araujo, Liquid Mango P.G.E.C, 321,1,15
Kelly Autumn, Dry Land
Israel Campos, Tlacuache Brings Fire
Babette Cooijmans, 0-Horizon
Ginger Crawford Tolonen, Finned Alive
Kate Deak, Seen Unseen
Beth Fein, Vuelo de Cambio
Karen Gallagher Iverson, I Understand That Time May Not Align
Kevin Harris, Uprooted
Joanna Kidd, Social Distancing
Dixie Laws, Dredger Tailings
Susan Leone Howe, Broken
Kent Manske, Pulse
Mary V Marsh, Where Are You Now
HJ Mooij, A refrigeratorberg onberg an iceberg with anberg iceberg withberg a refrigeratorberg onberg itberg
Ashley Rodriguez Reed, Give and Receive
Jami Taback, The Color of Time
Genesis, the Mayor, Torres, Measuring a Lifeline
Summer Ventis, Extraction: Great Salt Lake
Nanette Wylde, Still Here
Haoyun Erin Zhao, Transparent Threads
