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Amanda Hughen and Jennifer Starkweather
In San Francisco, there are over 700,000 trees: one for almost every
person who lives in the city
Ink and gouache on paper and Mylar, 2007
Starkweather's blue dots point to the location of trees planted in downtown
San Francisco. Hughen created drawings and screenprints of hexagons that
reference both cellular structure (trees, air, humans) and the pattern
of the tiles found in many downtown BART stations. The partitioned circular
marks in the background reference the shape of car tires and manhole covers.
The series Between above and below consists of six collaborative artworks by Amanda Hughen and Jennier Starkweather. The series was originally commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission and was exhibited as six foot posters in 24 pedestrian kiosks along Market Street for four months in 2007. In each image in this series, the artists isolated and juxtaposed forms and patterns derived from built systems and natural and mechanical movements along, above, and below Market Street. Starkweather worked in ink and gouache, using maps and data about transportation, pedestrian movement, electricity, trees, and bicycles as source material to create her marks. Hughen made screenprints from her drawings of geometric forms around Market Street, such as BART tiles, street lights, one way signs, and manhole covers.
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