Skip to main content Exhibition: 02.05 through 03.16
Reception: Thursday, 02.05 from 4pm-6pm

The images in this exhibit were captured at Salt Point which is a short distance down Highway 1 from Sea Ranch.  The stone photographs focus both on the tafoni right at the shore which are porous sandstone formations carved by the wind and on the harder surfaced rocks farther inland which have been overwhelmed by lichen.  Contrasting in what they evoke, both types of rock present memorable patterning. 

The tafoni sometimes have wild patterns of divots which look like faces; sometimes the divots are all bunched together and then broken up by areas of unmarred flat rock creating abstract sculptural forms.

The lichen covered rocks are subtler; the patterning on the surface can look like spots on a hide and when the rocks are surrounded by grasses, they appear to be slithering through the grass like preying animals.

Both the tafoni and the lichen covered rocks make a case for taking the time to look down, not just at the broader view.  But there are also broader view images of the pastoral fields up the hill from the tafoni in which the rocks line up as though carefully placed by human hands.  The one tree image in the exhibit is from a bit farther down Highway 

Jane Ivory is a California-based photographer with BA and MA degrees from UC Berkeley. Her career includes work in museum education at the San Francisco Museum of Art and leadership as a gallerist and co-owner of the Ivory/Kimpton Gallery. She has exhibited widely, with recent and upcoming solo shows at the Monterey Museum of Art, Gualala Art Center, Sea Ranch Lodge, Nelson Duni Gallery, and Viewpoint Gallery, and her work is held in major public collections including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and the Crocker Art Museum.

www.JaneIvory.com

@JaneIvoryPhotographer

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Jane Ivory Artist Exhibition & Reception

Jane Ivory Artist Exhibition & Reception

February 5 - March 16
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Sea Ranch Lodge

Exhibition: 02.05 through 03.16
Reception: Thursday, 02.05 from 4pm-6pm

The images in this exhibit were captured at Salt Point which is a short distance down Highway 1 from Sea Ranch.  The stone photographs focus both on the tafoni right at the shore which are porous sandstone formations carved by the wind and on the harder surfaced rocks farther inland which have been overwhelmed by lichen.  Contrasting in what they evoke, both types of rock present memorable patterning. 

The tafoni sometimes have wild patterns of divots which look like faces; sometimes the divots are all bunched together and then broken up by areas of unmarred flat rock creating abstract sculptural forms.

The lichen covered rocks are subtler; the patterning on the surface can look like spots on a hide and when the rocks are surrounded by grasses, they appear to be slithering through the grass like preying animals.

Both the tafoni and the lichen covered rocks make a case for taking the time to look down, not just at the broader view.  But there are also broader view images of the pastoral fields up the hill from the tafoni in which the rocks line up as though carefully placed by human hands.  The one tree image in the exhibit is from a bit farther down Highway 

Jane Ivory is a California-based photographer with BA and MA degrees from UC Berkeley. Her career includes work in museum education at the San Francisco Museum of Art and leadership as a gallerist and co-owner of the Ivory/Kimpton Gallery. She has exhibited widely, with recent and upcoming solo shows at the Monterey Museum of Art, Gualala Art Center, Sea Ranch Lodge, Nelson Duni Gallery, and Viewpoint Gallery, and her work is held in major public collections including Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and the Crocker Art Museum.

www.JaneIvory.com

@JaneIvoryPhotographer