Isabella Kirkland (born 1954) is an American visual artist and

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researcher.Johnson, Ken
"Isabella Kirkland,"
''The New York Times'', June 10, 2011. Retrieved March 12, 2024.Phillips, Anna Lena
"Ars Scientifica,"
''American Scientist'', May-June 2008. Retrieved March 12, 2024. She is known for intricate, representational paintings that straddle art history,

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and ecological activism.Revkin, Andrew C
"Permanent Art, Evanescent Life,"
''The New York Times'', November 1, 2007. Retrieved March 12, 2024.Roth David M
"The Nature Conundrum,"
''SquareCylinder'', June 2, 2021. Retrieved March 12, 2024.Baker, Kamrin
"Artist Advocates For Endangered & Extinct Species Through Paintings,"
''Good Good Good'', July 14, 2023. Retrieved March 12, 2024. Since the mid-1990s, she has documented biota in series focused on species that are extinct, disappearing, collected or illegally trafficked, or emerging from near-extinction.Weir, Alex
"Life in its Fleeting Glory,"
''Riverfront Times'', January 23, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2024.Garchik, Leah
"Isabella Kirkland and the glories of the shell-less mollusk,"
''San Francisco Chronicle'', March 29, 2016. Retrieved March 12, 2024.Pollick, Steve. "250 new plants, animals at Art Museum," ''Toledo Blade'', September 7, 2008. Her work fuses the classical naturalist tradition of wildlife painters like

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and the precise rendering style and time-tested oil techniques of 17th-century Dutch Master still life painters.Bonetti, David
"Three artists who grapple with history,"
''San Francisco Examiner'', November 20, 2001. Retrieved March 13, 2024.Pritikin, Renny
"Renny Pritikin on Isabella Kirkland @ Hosfelt,"
''SquareCylinder'', May 10, 2021. Retrieved March 12, 2024.Revkin, Andrew C
"Paintings of Nature's Comeback Kids,"
''The New York Times'', October 30, 2007. Retrieved March 12, 2024. Situated in the contemporary context of

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, however, her paintings subtly upend such idealized traditions, invoking a sense of accountability in response to the specter of ecological flux and impermanence.Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Isabella Kirkland
Artist. Retrieved March 12, 2024.Dayton Art Institute
"Dayton Art Institute opens Isabella Kirkland: Stilled Life,"
February 24, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2024.Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State
Isabella Kirkland
Personnel. Retrieved March 12, 2024. ''New York Times'' critic Ken Johnson wrote that Kirkland "produces richly atmospheric pictures collectively populated by hundreds of animals. … Updating the peaceable kingdom genre, she is trying to make beautiful paintings of the world at its most beautiful, not for the sake of art but for the sake of our endangered biosphere. She does not preach but communicates an infectious spirit of care." Kirkland's work belongs to the collections of institutions including the

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,Whitney Museum of American Art
Isabella Kirkland, ''Canopy''
Collection. Retrieved March 12, 2024.

Berkeley Art Museum The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA, formerly abbreviated as BAM/PFA) are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and film archive associated with the University of California, Berkeley. Lawrence Rinder was Director ...

and

Saint Louis Art Museum The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) is an art museum located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. With paintings, sculptures, cultural objects, and ancient masterpieces from around the world, its three-story building stands in Forest Park in ...

(SLAM).Saint Louis Art Museum
Isabella Kirkland
Collection. Retrieved March 12, 2024. She has exhibited at the

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(Chicago) and SLAM, among other venues. She is a research associate in aquatic biology at the

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Larson, Vicki
"Isabella Kirkland paints disappearing species—and newfound ones—with scientific detail,"
''Marin Independent Journal'', October 15, 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2024. and has spoken about ecological issues at conferences including several TED events.TED
"Isabella Kirkland: The Beauty of Wildlife,"
Talks, July 2023. Retrieved March 12, 2024.TED
"Isabella Kirkland,"
Speakers. Retrieved March 12, 2024.

Biography

Kirkland was born in 1954 in

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.Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Isabella Kirkland
Project. Retrieved March 12, 2024. She attended

Guildford College Guildford College of Further and Higher Education (GCFHE) in Guildford, Surrey was a Surrey County Council-funded educational establishment for students of age 16+ undertaking full-time and part-time studies, established in 1939. It became pa ...

in North Carolina and

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, before studying sculpture at the

San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a Private college, private art school, college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mis ...

in the late 1970s. Kirkland lived in New York City through much of the 1980s, pursuing her art career while also becoming a licensed taxidermist and teaching herself botanical illustration, both of which presaged her turn to naturalistic painting in the 1990s.Ames, Michael. "Going, going, almost gone," ''Idaho Mountain Express'', February 15, 2006. Her early art centered on environments hovering between painting and sculpture and impermanent conceptual installations that used unusual materials (e.g., ice, trash) and examined contemporary social issues.Atkins, Robert. "Katherine Sherwood and Isabella Kirkland," ''The San Francisco Bay Guardian'', September 25, 1980, p. 19–20. She presented this work in solo exhibitions at Gallery

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New Langton Arts New Langton Arts (active 1975 – 2009) was a not-for-profit arts organization focusing on contemporary art founded in 1975 and located the South of Market neighborhood in San Francisco, California. Part of the first wave of alternative art spaces ...

(both in San Francisco) and

Real Art Ways Real Art Ways is a non-profit art space established in 1975. Located at 56 Arbor Street in the Parkville neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut, Real Art Ways exhibits visual art, houses an independent cinema and presents live music, theater, and ...

(Hartford) and group shows at

The Alternative Museum The Alternative Museum was founded in 1975 by artists for artists and the broader New York City community in the United States.Hallwalls Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (aka Hallwalls) is a non-profit art organization located in Buffalo, New York. Since 1974, Hallwalls has shown and shows the work of contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds who work in film, video, literatu ...

(Buffalo) and The Living Room (San Francisco), among other venues.Reveaux, Anthony. "Looking at Contemporary Life," ''Artweek'', 1984.Raynor, Vivien
"Past and Present Futurists,"
''The New York Times'', May 29, 1983. Retrieved March 13, 2024.Hallwalls

Artists. Retrieved March 12, 2024. ''New York Times'' critic

Vivien Raynor Vivien Raynor (1927 – February 15, 2009) was an American art critic whose work was published in several publications, including ''The New York Times'', ''ARTnews'', '' Art in America'', and ''The New Leader''. The 2022 Netflix-series ''The Andy W ...

wrote of the Real Art Ways exhibition, which addressed overpopulation, nuclear war and racism: "Seemingly reluctant to bully her viewers, Kirkland errs on the side of tortuousness and sometimes, of playfulness, but her integrity is unmistakable."Goldberg, Carole. Review, ''Hartford Advocate'', May 4, 1983. In 2004, Kirkland suffered neural and motor control damage from parasitic infection after a tropical

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attacked part of her spinal cord. The incident and its effects—so rare that doctors were unaware of the symptoms or treatments—left her unable to draw for several months.Colliver, Victoria
"Home DNA tests create medical, ethical quandaries,"
''San Francisco Examiner'', August 21, 2007. Retrieved March 13, 2024.Wynn Newhouse Awards

Retrieved March 12, 2024. She eventually recovered full control of her right hand, but was left with chronic neuropathic pain in the upper right quadrant of her body, most critically,

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(sometimes described as a burning sensation under the skin) in her hand and wrist; she has stated that the condition can abate during the flow-state induced by painting. In 2008, Kirkland received the

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, which recognizes contributions of artists with disabilities to contemporary art. Since 2000, Kirkland has had solo exhibitions at Feature Inc. (New York),Feature, Inc
Isabella Kirkland, ''Nova'', 2011
Exhibitions. Retrieved March 12, 2024. the National Academy of Sciences,

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, Saint Louis Art Museum,

Dayton Art Institute The Dayton Art Institute (DAI) is a museum of fine arts in Dayton, Ohio, Dayton, Ohio, United States. The Dayton Art Institute has been rated one of the top 10 best art museums in the United States for children. The museum also ranks in the top 3% ...

Kamholtz, Jonathan
"Death and Taxa: Isabella Kirkland: Stilled Life,"
''AEQAI'', April 26, 2014. Retrieved July 31, 2014. and

Hosfelt Gallery Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco, California was founded in 1996 by Todd Hosfelt to exhibit contemporary international artists working in all media. History Hosfelt Gallery was founded by Todd Hosfelt in 1996, at 95 Federal Street in San Francisc ...

(San Francisco), among others. She has shown in nature-related surveys at the

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) in the state of Arizona is a museum in the Old Town district of downtown Scottsdale, Arizona. The museum is dedicated to contemporary art, design, and architecture. The Museum has five galleries t ...

,Nilsen, Richard. "How Real Can It Get? Perceptions Always in Flux," ''The Arizona Republic'', May 30, 2004.

Tucson Museum of Art Tucson (; ; ) is a city in Pima County, Arizona, United States, and its county seat. It is the second-most populous city in Arizona, behind Phoenix, with a population of 542,630 in the 2020 United States census. The Tucson metropolitan ...

Tucson Museum of Art
''Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord in Nature and Society''.
Retrieved March 12, 2024. and

Whatcom Museum The Whatcom Museum is a natural history and art museum located in Bellingham, Washington. Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Whatcom Museum has a three building campus that includes Old City Hall, Old Fire Station No.1, and The L ...

.Whatcom Museum
"Thought-Provoking Exhibition to Explore Endangered Species and Biodiversity,"
2019. Retrieved March 12, 2024. Kirkland lives in Sausalito, California with her husband, Chris Tellis, on a yellow ferryboat docked in the San Francisco Bay.Surtees, Joshua
"If you're going to San Francisco – stay on a stylish Sausalito houseboat,"
''The Guardian'', June 28, 2013. Retrieved March 12, 2024.Tropiano, Dolores. "Natural wonder show," ''Scottsdale Republic'', September 2004.

Naturalistic painting

In the 1990s, Kirkland's early artistic focus on impermanence shifted to a consideration of art's lasting power; the change was cemented by a museum exhibition of Dutch Master works, which convinced her to learn to paint in that style. Her initial foray was the "Nature in the Margins" series (1995–99), consisting of realistic paintings of individual, rare animals living in human environments that raised questions about wildlife survival amid overdevelopment. In 1999, a

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list of the 100 most-endangered animals in the U.S. crystallized parallel themes in her work—the durability of art and naturalist painting—into a single concept and her first mature series: the "Taxa" works, which catalogued various species groups.Bossick, Karen. "'Gone,' 'Back,' and 'Nova,'" ''The Wood River Journal'', February 15, 2006. Kirkland's naturalist paintings are characteristically large, lush works composed like well-balanced tapestries that both celebrate decorative beauty and address environmental degradation and homogenization.''Eclectix''
"Isabella Kirkland, Eclectix Interview 47,"
September 19, 2013. Retrieved March 13, 2024. She meticulously depicts species that do not necessarily belong together, generally at scale. Her concentrated level of detail and complex compositions function to slow down the viewing process and encourage deeper connection—and potentially—a sense of responsibility. ''American Scientist'' writer Anna Lena Phillips noted, "perhaps paradoxically, by removing species from their habitats, the paintings acquire the power to change our perception of the plants and animals within them. In this sense, Kirkland's work moves beyond the representation of scientific ideas to offer new ways of thinking about the organisms she depicts." Kirkland carefully researches the species in the paintings—which can take more than a year to execute—using original scientific descriptions, specimens, rubrics and databases often made available to viewers through keys or explanatory texts. Writers such as

Renny Pritikin Renny Pritikin (born c. 1948) is an American curator, museum professional, writer, poet, and educator. He was the chief curator of San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum from 2014 to 2018. He was Director of the Richard L. Nelson Gallery and the ...

place Kirkland among a generation of artists reclaiming traditional realist painting and "moving it toward extra-aesthetic ends" and complex, contemporary concepts. She applies the accurate depiction of flora and fauna once used in scientific illustration to different means, regarding her intentionally durable oil paintings as a hedge against a possibly dystopian future—"alarm clocks" or analog "time capsules" of biodiversity that may outlast both the species depicted and the ephemerality of digital records. In this sense, like Dutch Master still lifes or history and political paintings (e.g., ''Guernica ''), they serve the functions of bearing witness and carrying cultural or metaphorical content.

Painting series, 1999–ongoing

The six large imaginary landscapes of Kirkland's "Taxa" suite (1999–2004) represent dynamic change in the natural world caused by human agency through depictions of nearly 400 life-size species. ''New York Times'' writer Andrew C. Revkin described them as "a mix of Dutch Master and " Where's Waldo?" … full of hidden things worth looking for." ''Descendant'' (1999) portrayed 61 endangered or extinct species in the mainland U.S., Hawaii and Central America, while ''Ascendant'' (2000) depicted non-native species that are crowding out native residents in the U.S. In ''Trade'' (2001) and ''Collection'' (2002), vivid tableaux of depleted species that are highly valued (and thus harvested, poached and sold) underscored the human desire to possess exotic creatures. ''Back'' (2003) presented 48 species thought to be extinct but brought back into existence, using warm natural tones to convey the resilience of life; in contrast, the darker ''Gone'' (2004) catalogued 63 organisms that underwent full-species, worldwide extinction, many due to the colonization of the New World. The four paintings of the "Nova" suite (2007–11; exhibited at Feature, Inc. in 2011) explored the complexity and interdependency of life through depictions of 250 newly discovered plant and animals. The profusely detailed, metaphoric ecosystems each represent a strata of a typical tropical rainforest: ''Forest Floor'', ''Understory'', ''Canopy'' and ''Emergent'' (the treetop level). ''Forest Floor'' (2007) included a stream with fish and salamander beneath its surface and multiple species of birds, insects and animals; ''Canopy'' (2008) featured spongy mats of moss, hornworts, liverworts and orchids, a beetle in flight and a heavy-jawed, yet-to-be-named mouse, among other species. ''The New York Times'' likened the work to "lush, naturalist illustration with roots in the 19th-century transcendentalist realism of

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." In later series, Kirkland turned to subjects including aquatic life (e.g., ''Squat Lobsters'', 2021), gravestone lichens, butterflies and birds, phasmid (walking sticks and leaf insects) eggs, and flora.Wisnieski, Adam
"A garden variety of art at Wave Hill,"
''The Riverdale News'', April 11, 2012. Retrieved March 13, 2024. Her show "

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ia: Butterflies of the Sea" (Bolinas Museum, 2014) explored those wildly colorful, soft-bodied marine gastropod mollusks in works that included a large canvas arraying 206 of the creatures life-size in rows from smallest (at top) to largest. "The Small Matter" (Hosfelt, 2021) was a near-retrospective scale show portraying a range of organisms, many invisible to the naked eye. It included depictions of specimens unnaturally bunched side-by-side, pinned or tagged, such as ''Bachman's Warblers Redux'' (2018) and the butterfly ''

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'' (2020), which suggested a wry meta-commentary on the human need to impose taxonomical order onto nature.

Writing and other professional activities

Kirkland has been a featured speaker at numerous biodiversity and ecological conferences and events,Garchik, Leah
"How to choose words, get money and stay connected,"
''San Francisco Chronicle'', October 18, 2018. Retrieved March 13, 2024. including TEDx DeExtinction (2013),Revive & Restore
"TEDx DeExtinction,"
Speakers. Retrieved March 12, 2024.

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(2016)Long Now Foundation
"Painting the Endangered World , Isabella Kirkland"
2016. Retrieved March 12, 2024. and the TED Countdown Summit 2023. She exhibited work at TED 2007. In addition to serving as a research associate in aquatic biology and scientific illustrator at the California Academy of Sciences,Dumbacher, Jack
"Wind, Sand and Starlings at Yanaba Island,"
''The New York Times'', October 25, 2011. Retrieved March 13, 2024. she is an artist partner of Art To Acres, an organization supporting large-scale global land and animal conservation through art and financial donations.Art to Acres
Retrieved March 13, 2024.

Collections and recognition

Kirkland's work belongs to the public art collections of the

Bates College Museum of Art The Bates College Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of, and maintained by, Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. The museum's collection consists of works of art that showcase Maine as well as art from around the world, with a foc ...

,Bates Museum of Art
Isabella Kirkland
Artists. Retrieved March 12, 2024. Berkeley Art Museum,

Chazen Museum of Art The Chazen Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin. Founded as the Elvehjem Art Center (later Elvehjem Museum of Art) in 1970, the museum moved into a brutalist buildi ...

,Chazen Museum of Art
''Canopy'', Isabella Kirkland
Collection. Retrieved March 12, 2024.

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, commonly known as the Loeb, is a teaching museum, major art repository, and exhibition space on the campus of Vassar College, in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. It was founded in 1864 as the Vassar Colleg ...

,Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Isabella Kirkland, ''Canopy''
Objects. Retrieved March 12, 2024.

Hammer Museum The Hammer Museum, which is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles, is an art museum and cultural center known for its artist-centric and progressive array of exhibitions and public programs. Founded in 1990 by the entrepreneur- ...

Hood Museum of Art The Hood Museum of Art is an art museum owned and operated by Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The first reference to the development of an art collection at Dartmouth was in 1772, making the collection among the oldest and largest, a ...

,Hood Museum of Art
Isabella Kirkland, ''Gone''
Objects. Retrieved March 12, 2024.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) is a museum and private art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1805, it is the longest continuously operating art museum and art school in the United States. The academy's museum ...

,Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Isabella Kirkland
Artist. Retrieved March 12, 2024.

Queens Museum The Queens Museum (formerly the Queens Museum of Art) is an art museum and educational center at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City, United States. Established in 1972, the museum includes the '' Panorama of the City of New ...

RISD Museum The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD Museum) is an art museum integrated with the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island, US. The museum was co-founded with the school in 1877. It is the 20th-largest art m ...

,RISD Museum
Isabella Kirkland, ''Canopy''
Collection. Retrieved March 12, 2024. Saint Louis Art Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Toledo Art Museum,Toledo Museum of Art
''Taxa'', Isabella Kirkland
Objects. Retrieved March 12, 2024. Whitney Museum,

Yale University Art Gallery The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is an art museum in New Haven, Connecticut. It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University. Although it embraces all cultures and period ...

,Yale University Art Gallery
''Canopy'', Isabella Kirkland
Collections. Retrieved March 12, 2024. and Zimmerli Art Museum,Zimmerli Art Museum
''Canopy'', Isabella Kirkland
Objects. Retrieved March 12, 2024. among others. Her paintings have been reproduced as illustrations for several books and publications and as cover art for '' Whole Earth'' magazineSan Francisco Art Institute
"Whole Earth 50th Anniversary Exhibition,"
Exhibit. Retrieved March 13, 2024. and the books ''The Future of Life'' (2002) by

E. O. Wilson Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist known for developing the field of sociobiology. Born in Alabama, Wilson found an early interest in nature and frequ ...

, ''Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations'' (2017, by Rose, van Dooren and Chrulew), and ''Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade'' (2020) by Rosemary-Claire Collard.Wilson, E. O
''The Future of Life''
New York: Knopf, 2002. Retrieved March 13, 2024.Rose, Deborah Bird and Thom Van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew (eds)
Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations''
New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. Retrieved March 13, 2024.Collard, Rosemary-Claire
''Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade''
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Retrieved March 13, 2024. Kirkland has been recognized with a Wynn Newhouse Award (2008) and grants from George Sugarman Foundation (2005) and Marin Arts Council (2004).

References

External links

Isabella Kirkland official website"Isabella Kirkland: The Beauty of Wildlife,"
TED Talk, July 2023
"Painting the Endangered World , Isabella Kirkland"
talk at Long Now Foundation, 2017
"Isabella Kirkland: Material Longevity"
Berkeley Arts + Design, 2020
Isabella Kirkland
''Eclectix'' interview, 2013
Isabella Kirkland
Hosfelt Gallery.

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