Hughen/Starkweather: Adapt, Retreat, Defend, Abandon will be on view at Electric Works at Minnesota Street Project Sept 6–30, 2017. Opening reception: Saturday, September 9, 6–9 pm. Gallery hours: Weds–Sat, 11 am–6 pm, and by appointment.

In their ongoing project Shifting Shorelines, Hughen/Starkweather investigate areas where land meets water, and the complex human, environmental, and historical factors that shape these places. Similar to early cartographers, dependent on inconsistent tools and word-of-mouth information, the artists follow a sometimes meandering trail of data, images, maps, and oral histories. The resulting drawings and paintings reinterpret the complex narratives of landscape, creating new and unexpected forms through which to view a place, its history, and its possible futures. 

Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota St., #107, San Francisco. For more information: noah@sfelectricworks.com or 415 225 6624

Hughen/Starkweather's video Requiem will be shown at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, from Nov 25, 2016–Jun 25, 2017 as part of the art exhibition The Yud Video Project, expanding on the contemporary art exhibition From Generation to Generation: Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art. Requiem focuses on the damaged and dismantled East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, an element of the daily landscape of hundreds of thousands of Bay Area commuters for decades which now exists only in documentation and collective memory.

Hughen/Starkweather Adjacent Shores at USF Thacher Gallery, March 7 - April 24, 2016.
At the center of the exhibition is the artists’ response to an 18th century Japanese map, also on display in the gallery. In addition, the artists created a series of artworks based on interviews with USF community members, whose specialties range from cartography to poetry to environmental studies. Each interview probed a personal memory of the Pacific Ocean and projections about what that place might look like in 50 years. The resulting abstractions reference natural and human impacts on shorelines, including population growth, development, flood mitigation projects, industry, undersea earthquakes, and rising sea levels, while exploring the connections between memory, language, and visual interpretation. For more information and location: www.usfca.edu/thacher-gallery. Opening lecture: March 10, 2pm USF, McClaren Conference Center/Thacher Gallery. Closing reception: Sunday April 24, 12pm, Thacher Gallery. Art Practical article on the series can be read here.

Through February 19, 2016. Hughen/Starkweather, Surging and Shifting: Charting the Bay at the Public Policy Institute of California, 500 Washington Street, SF CA. This exhibition includes works from Hughen/Starkweather’s ongoing project, Shifting Shorelines, in which they explore the past, present, and future shorelines of San Francisco Bay. These hybrid landscapes of built and natural environments have been shaped by industry, earthquakes, population growth, infill, habitat restoration, manufacturing, and sea level rise. Researching historic and current maps, data, photos, and personal interviews, Hughen/Starkweather explore the myriad ways shorelines have been and continue to be altered. More information and images on this project can be seen here.

The Hughen/Starkweather project Re:depiction is on view in First Look, recent acquisitions at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, from September 4 - October 11, 2015. The Re:depiction catalogue, including an essay by curator Allison Harding, can be viewed here. Re:depiction is a visual translation of objects in the museum collection via memory and language. The installation consists of six large abstract works on paper accompanied by audio recordings of voices describing specific works in the collection. Museum visitors are invited to take a map and find the original works as described in the sound recordings, closing a loop connecting abstraction, memory, translation, and its source material. An interview about the project with Marc Mayer from the Museum can be read here. Read reviews of the project from KQED (here) and Hyperallergic (here).

Two-person show at c2c project space in San Francisco with Brooklyn artist Tamara Zahaykevich. Installation shot left, Hughen, 010615A1A2 Afghan 5, acrylic paint and ink on paper, 38x25", 2015. Right, Zahaykevich, Looming Dolly, 8x11x2", foam board and acrylic paint, 2013.

Lecturer in the LASER Art & Science Lecture Series, UC Berkeley, alongside Tami Spector, Organic Chemist; Jonathon Keats, Philosopher; and Birgitta Whaley, Quantum Physicist.

Group show: Shift at the NWBLK, San Francisco, CA, curated by Heather Marx. October - December 2014

Instagram takeover for SF Camerawork in advance of their annual auction. Image: Klea McKenna, Rain Study, KONA #42, 2014 

Group show: Symbiosis: Art & Science Intersect, at the Agrella Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA

Group show: Shoebox Orchestra at ampersand international arts, San Francisco, CA

Hughen/Starkweather Re:depiction at Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

Electroembryonic used for cover of Elizabeth Block's Celluloid Salutations