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CURRENT WORK

CURRENT WORK

2020

Fall 2020

2019

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Contact

tabuenafrolli@gmail.com

Pieces photographed at the studio of Angelou Masters and the house of Aadrita Mukerji

Devil Canyon Portrait

    Devil Canyon Portrait

  • Grass from Devil Canyon and gesso
  • 16 x 20 in.
  • 2023
Diablo Range Serpentine Portrait

    Diablo Range Serpentine Portrait

  • Serpentine from near San Benito Mountain
  • 20 x 24 in.
  • 2023
Public Inheritance 02

    Public Inheritance 02

  • Ink impressions of historically significant hazardous waste
  • 36 x 53 in.
  • 2023
Contained Landscape 01

    Contained Landscape 01

  • Glue, charcoal, reflective gravel, shell
  • 7 x 5.5 x 2 in.
  • 2022
Hillside Bones

    Hillside Bones

  • Charred cow bones, ash from fire in the East Hills of San Jose
  • 13.5 x 9 x 4.5 in.
  • 2022
Spring 2020

    Spring 2020

  • Asphaltum on paper
  • 18 x 24 in.
  • 2020
Spring 2020 detail

    Spring 2020

  • detail
Summer 2020

    Summer 2020

  • Asphaltum on paper
  • 20 x 24 in.
  • 2020
Fall 2020

    Fall 2020

  • Asphaltum on paper
  • 18 x 24 in.
  • 2020
Coalinga Fire

    Coalinga Fire

  • a collection of 4 found objects from a fire site near Coalinga
  • 2020
 Melted Trailer

    Melted Trailer

  • Metal and rocks
  • 12 x 15 x 1 in.
Brick

    Brick

  • Metal on brick
  • 8 x 4 x 3 in.
Twice-baked Tile + Wood Stand

    Twice-baked Tile

  • Metal on brick
  • 8 x 4 x 3 in.

    Wood Stand, detail

  • Wood cut by fire crew
  • 14 x 20 x 10 in.
  • not pictured in full
Self Portraits

    Self Portrait 01

  • Wood ash on paper
  • 17 x 26 in.
  • 2019

    Self Portrait 02

  • Object tracings on paper
  • 17 x 26 in.
  • 2019

    Self Portrait 03

  • photograph
  • 2020
Terrane

    History Is Derived from the Land

  • set of 4 pieces
  • Wood stain and charcoal on paper
  • 2019

The full name of this piece is in four parts. The names given in parentheses are the shorthand names for each piece.

( Terrane | Export | Consumption | Culture )

If History is an account of power through time...

    ( Terrane )

  • 17 x 26 in.
  • detail below
Terrane detail
Export

...And if power through time is determined

by who has what resources and when...

    ( Export )

  • 17 x 26 in.
( Consumption )

...And if resources are derived from rocks in the earth

and from the forests that grow from those rocks

and from the animals that grow from those forests...

    ( Consumption )

  • 17 x 26 in.
  • detail below
Consumption Detail
( Culture )

...History is an account of humans' exploitation of nature

for power and for the comfort of the powerful.

    ( Culture )

  • 17 x 26 in.
Oil Studies

    Oil Studies

  • Asphaltum, glue, and sawdust on wood
  • 32 x 8 x 9 in.
  • 2019
  • with details below
Oil Studies Detail Oil Studies Detail Oil Studies Detail
Yield 01

    Yield 01

  • An Agricultural Portrait of California in Late 2010s
  • Serigraph
  • 3.5 x 4.5 x 1.5 feet
  • 2019

    Yield 01 Artist Proof

  • 28 x 40 in.
  • 2019

Yield 01 premiered at the Santa Paula Art Museum's 2019 Art About Agriculture Show.

It is a compilation documentary of each county's contribution to California's 50 billion dollar agriculture industry.