Skip to main content Exhibition Dates: Friday, 06.05 – Monday, 06.29
Reception: Friday, 06.05 from 4pm-6pm

BALANCED 

Balanced by Kerry Mansfield emerges from a lengthy collaboration with an anonymous artist working along the Northern California coast. Rather than simple stacking, the work involves the precise, often improbable balancing of large stones—structures held in place by minute points of contact, gravity, and an acute sensitivity to weight and form.

The collaborator’s process is physically exacting—selecting stones with care, lifting and repositioning substantial weight through repeated attempts until a precarious equilibrium is achieved. Locations were not incidental; they were deliberately chosen, drawing on Mansfield’s deep familiarity with the coastline to shape how the work would ultimately be seen.

These sculptures exist only briefly. Each configuration is inherently unstable, subject to wind, vibration, and the constant movement of the ocean. Photographing them required a parallel form of attention— waiting, watching, and often positioning herself in physically difficult, even precarious locations to meet the work at the exact moment it resolved.

The act of photographing becomes inseparable from the act of making—the work completed only in the moment it is seen and fixed. The resulting images are not documents of permanence, but of alignment. They mark the instant when opposing forces—mass and delicacy, control and collapse—come into temporary equilibrium. What appears solid is, in fact, on the verge of disappearance.

Kerry Mansfield Bio:

Kerry Mansfield’s fine artwork has been exhibited globally, garnered numerous honors and awards. A host of press and publications, ranging from Time Magazine’s Lightbox, The New York Times Lens Blog to Architectural Digest, have featured several bodies of her work. While living in The Sea Ranch Kerry has been photographing the ephemeral coastline and its entrancing interplay with the Pacific Ocean. After shooting for over eight years, she curated The Sea Ranch Collection highlighting her favorite locations and unique subject matter.

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Kerry Mansfield Artist Exhibition & Reception

Kerry Mansfield Artist Exhibition & Reception

June 5 - 29
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
The Sea Ranch Lodge

Exhibition Dates: Friday, 06.05 – Monday, 06.29
Reception: Friday, 06.05 from 4pm-6pm

BALANCED 

Balanced by Kerry Mansfield emerges from a lengthy collaboration with an anonymous artist working along the Northern California coast. Rather than simple stacking, the work involves the precise, often improbable balancing of large stones—structures held in place by minute points of contact, gravity, and an acute sensitivity to weight and form.

The collaborator’s process is physically exacting—selecting stones with care, lifting and repositioning substantial weight through repeated attempts until a precarious equilibrium is achieved. Locations were not incidental; they were deliberately chosen, drawing on Mansfield’s deep familiarity with the coastline to shape how the work would ultimately be seen.

These sculptures exist only briefly. Each configuration is inherently unstable, subject to wind, vibration, and the constant movement of the ocean. Photographing them required a parallel form of attention— waiting, watching, and often positioning herself in physically difficult, even precarious locations to meet the work at the exact moment it resolved.

The act of photographing becomes inseparable from the act of making—the work completed only in the moment it is seen and fixed. The resulting images are not documents of permanence, but of alignment. They mark the instant when opposing forces—mass and delicacy, control and collapse—come into temporary equilibrium. What appears solid is, in fact, on the verge of disappearance.

Kerry Mansfield Bio:

Kerry Mansfield’s fine artwork has been exhibited globally, garnered numerous honors and awards. A host of press and publications, ranging from Time Magazine’s Lightbox, The New York Times Lens Blog to Architectural Digest, have featured several bodies of her work. While living in The Sea Ranch Kerry has been photographing the ephemeral coastline and its entrancing interplay with the Pacific Ocean. After shooting for over eight years, she curated The Sea Ranch Collection highlighting her favorite locations and unique subject matter.