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Yield 02 Front

    Yield 02 — Oil Map of the Los Angeles Basin

  • serigraph
  • 36 x 25 in.
  • edition of 33
  • 2019 - 2024

Yield 02 highlights historic oil locations, public parks and native animals of the greater Los Angeles region

Yield 02 Back

This map and table collates 144 years of state-collected data on the production of California's oil industry.

Each oil field is profiled — with its initial year, year of highest production, and volume of extracted petroleum and gas listed

Yield 02 detail

It is available for public viewing at: the California Room in the San Jose public library's downtown branch,

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive and the map collections of the Central Library in DTLA,

CSU Northridge, UCLA and Stanford University

Yield 02 detail

Sources for this map include hard copies of the California Oil and Gas Supervisor ( 1876 - 2020 )

accessed at: the Science Floor of the Central Library in Los Angeles, the California Room at the Martin Luther King Jr. branch in downtown San Jose,

and the CA Department of Conservation's online document request page and Interactive Oil Field Map

If your public collection would like to host a print of Yield 02 for research or viewing, please get in touch: tabuenafrolli@gmail.com

California Life 01

    California Life 01

  • crochet by Shannon Moore, asphaltum, sandstone, stone, bone, fossil
  • 24 x 18 in.
  • 2026
California Oil Library

    California Oil Library

  • mobile collection of California petroleum and natural history
  • 59 x 25 x 10 in.
  • ongoing
Raw Materials 01

    Raw Materials 01

  • sandstone from Santa Susana Range
  • 22 x 40 in.
  • 2026
Asphaltum Transparency 01

    Asphaltum Transparency 01

  • California asphaltum between glass
  • 26 x 10 in.
  • 2025
Birthday Portrait 01

    Birthday Portrait 01

  • snake
  • 6 x 8 in.
  • 2024
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

  • tile
  • 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

    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 )

Terrane

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 01premiered 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.