Headlands Center for the Arts

In 2019, I was the Designer in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts. During this time, I designed and produced the visual identity systems and collateral for the year’s events and exhibitions. I also pursued an independent project involving the local wildlife.

Benefit Art Auction

The visual direction for Headlands’ 2019 Benefit Art Auction was inspired by light, portals, and aura photography. This identity system also informed the spatial design of the event, including art installations, lighting design, signage and wayfinding, and an aura photography booth.

Project Space

The identity system for the 2019 seasonal Project Space exhibitions used modular tangram shapes and a shifting color palette, both inspired by the landscape, architecture, and multidisciplinary approach of Headlands Center for the Arts.

Graduate Fellows Exhibition

The artists in this exhibition, The Ordinary Instant, were concerned with various topics around origins and connections, in a multitude of media, styles, textures, and dimensions. In thinking about the “ordinary instants” that brought forth this universe and the intersection of these artists’ timelines, this identity system was inspired by relativity, singularities, and multiverses, suggesting a diagrammatic timeline and making use of the space in an expansive but minimal way.

Edge of See

Collateral for a series of gestural AR sculptures installed at the various battery ruins in the Marin Headlands.

sunset soirée + Under the Stars

This flexible system developed for two related events was inspired by astronomical and astrophysical glyphs and diagrams, as well as the aesthetics of the Voyager golden record and Pioneer plaques.

Coyote holiday card

I concluded my yearlong residency with an independent project: observing and studying the coyotes of the Marin Headlands. HCA generously hosted me as a live-in artist between seasons so I could fully commune with the wilderness. It took me a week of constant walking and wandering to learn to see the coyotes, but once I started seeing them, I never stopped. The coyotes have informed my art practice since. At the end of the year, I contributed some of my watercolor coyote studies to Headlands’ 2019 holiday card.