Cal Tabuena-Frolli

CURRENT WORK

2023

Devil Canyon

2023

Diablo Range Serpentine

2023

Public Inheritance 02

2022

Contained Landscape 01

2022

Hillside Bones

2020

Spring 2020

2020

Summer 2020

2020

Fall 2020

2020

Coalinga Fire

2020

Self Portraits

2019

History Is Derived from the Land

2019

( Terrane )

2019

( Export )

2019

( Consumption )

2019

( Culture )

2019

Oil Studies

2019

Yield 01, An Agricultural Portrait

COLLECTIONS

Current Work

Commissions

Photography

Prints and Series

Books and Zines

ARTICLES

About Me

Contact

tabuenafrolli@gmail.com

Devil Canyon Portrait

Grass from Devil Canyon and gesso
16 x 20 in.
2023

Diablo Range Serpentine Portrait

Serpentine from near San Benito Mountain
20 x 24 in.
2023

Public Inheritance 02

Ink impressions of historically significant hazardous waste
36 x 53 in.
2023

Contained Landscape 01

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

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

Asphaltum on paper
18 x 24 in.
2020

Spring 2020

detail

Summer 2020

Asphaltum on paper
20 x 24 in.
2020

Fall 2020

Asphaltum on paper
18 x 24 in.
2020

Coalinga Fire

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

Melted Trailer

Metal and rocks
12 x 15 x 1 in.

Brick

Metal on brick
8 x 4 x 3 in.

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 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

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

...And if power through time is determined

by who has what resources and when...

( Export )

17 x 26 in.

...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

...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

Asphaltum, glue, and sawdust on wood
32 x 8 x 9 in.
2019
with details below

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.