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ASCENDANT - This picture is of non-native species that have been introduced in some part of the United States or its trust territories. They are all on the increase, as they successfully out-compete native residents.
GONE - The sixty-three species depicted in Gone have all become extinct since the mid-1800s and the colonization of the New World.
DESCENDANT - These plants and animals are all in decline in the mainland United States, Hawaii, or Central America. Most are on either state or federal endangered species lists, while a few are now presumed extinct.
TAXA
ISABELLA KIRKLAND
PUBLISHED BY FEATURE INC, 2007. BOXED SUITE OF 6 26.5 X 35" INKJET PRINTS BASED ON PAINTINGS CREATED BETWEEN 1999 AND 2004. PRINTED BY TRILLIUM PRESS IN SAN FRANCISCO ON MOAB ENTRADA NATURAL WHITE PAPER WITH ARCHIVAL INKS. EDITION OF 50.
Isabella Kirkland's work examines man's relationship to the natural world through intricate oil paintings in the style of 16th & 17th Century Dutch Master still lifes.
Her life-size depictions of plants and animals are precisely rendered and anatomically accurate, the result of extensive research at natural history museums.
$16,000 (plus $250 shipping)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Isabella Kirkland studied at Worcester Museum School in Massachusetts in 1973 and the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, in 1975 before moving to San Francisco to study at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is a trained taxidermist. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Harvard Museum of Natural History; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco; Feature Inc. in New York; and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona.
She was featured in Artforum's Best of 2002: 11 Top Tens, and in 2004 she received an Individual Artist Grant from the Marin Arts Council.
Kirkland's Taxa series was the subject of an exhibition at the National Academy of Sciences in the spring of 2008. She had a solo show at the Toledo Art Museum in 2008, and a solo exhibit of her new NOVA paintings will open at Feature Gallery in New York City in 2010. She currently resides in Sausalito, California.
