SITE-SPECIFIC PUBLIC ARTWORK IN DOGPATCH, SAN FRANCISCO
A series of 5 site-specific public artworks on metal panels are located in a public pedestrian thoroughfare at 950 Tennessee Street in Dogpatch, San Francisco. The title of this series of artworks, And with the mountain had gone the marshes, is taken from an 1889 article in the San Francisco Examiner about the surrounding neighborhood, and refers to the hills that once existed nearby which were leveled to make room for development. More than 100,000 cubic feet of serpentine rock from these hills was dumped into San Francisco Bay to create additional land for industrial expansion. More about this project here.

San Francisco Arts Commission Grant 2020
Hughen/Starkweather has been awarded a $20,000 Individual Artists Grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.

SITE-SPECIFIC COMMISSION, DALLAS/FORT WORTH
Hughen/Starkweather has completed a large scale, site-specific commission in Dallas/Fort Worth. The artwork reflects the connections and intersections between two metroplex areas — the San Francisco Bay Area and DFW — focusing on the natural and built environments that make these places unique. In addition to visits to the site and researching maps and photos of these landscapes, the artists invited people living in the Dallas/Fort Worth area to describe the landscape in their own words, and used these words as visual source materials for creating the artwork. View additional images of the project here.

EXHIBITION: SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION IN MIAMI
Hughen/Starkweather will be part of the exhibition Futurescape Miami: Skyline to Shoreline at the untitled art fair in Miami Beach December 4-8, 2019. The artists’ site-specific hanging fabric artworks are installed alongside audio excerpts from their interviews with Miami residents about their personal experiences with flooding. Each day during the art fair, Hughen/Starkweather will lead a 1-hour Flood Walk from the beach to Biscayne Bay to investigate complex narratives around development, geology, and sea level rise. The installation and Flood walk are part of Hughen/Starkweather’s ongoing Climate Narratives project, which invites new perspectives and connections on climate change in a time of catastrophic rhetoric and divisive conversation. More about this project here.

CLIMATE WALK, SAN FRANCISCO
Join Hughen/Starkweather for a Climate Walk with the Walk Discourse on January 19 at 2pm. The walk is part of the artists’ Climate Narratives project. We will meet on Pier 35 at untitled and zigzag along the pre-1850 shoreline of San Francisco Bay, approximately 2 blocks inland from the current Embarcadero shoreline. The walk will explore past and future shorelines, climate, development, property, and empathy. The walk is free, but participants must register on Eventbrite -- space is limited. 1869 San Francisco map showing the early shoreline is from the David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University.

June - September 2018
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, RECOLOGY, SAN FRANCISCO
During their residency at Recology San Francisco, Hughen/Starkweather continued their investigation into climate change, focusing on the environmental impact of food systems. The resulting series includes the shapes of single-use food packaging to reference landscapes and biological processes. The series is titled Black Gold, which refers simultaneously to compost (which sequesters carbon in the soil, removing it from the atmosphere) and to petroleum (a primary ingredient in plastic). The artworks do not attempt to offer solutions but hope to prompt questions and new perspectives on an increasingly urgent topic. View works from the series here.

September 2018
GLOBAL CLIMATE ACTION SUMMIT, SAN FRANCISCO
Hughen/Starkweather’s work is part of an exhibition in the 2018 Global Climate Action Summit in the California State Building in San Francisco’s Civic Center. This artwork, Soft Edged Suburb from Shifting Shorelines, is based on our interview with wetlands scientist Phyllis Faber, who co-founded the Marin Agricultural Land Trust. In the interview, Faber described her work in the 1976 restoration of Muzzi Marsh on San Francisco Bay in Corte Madera, the area on which this artwork is based. The restoration was the result of mitigation required for the creation of the Larkspur Ferry Terminal -- the triangular geometry of the terminal is referenced in the upper right corner of the artwork. Muzzi Marsh was notable as the first San Francisco Bay marsh restored without new plantings, allowing nature to restore itself. The black shapes in the artwork are based closely on suburban developments in Marin County in areas that may flood with sea level rise. California State Building, 455 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco. More information here.

May - November 2018
2018 VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE

Hughen/Starkweather’s work is part of an installation by San Francisco architecture firm Red Dot Studio at the 2018 Venice Architectural Biennale. The installation is focused on the anthropocene epoch, climate change, and oceans. The very complexity of our built environment and natural ecosystems may hold the key to our future. A short video about our work is also on view at the Biennale — the video can be seen here.

September-November 2017
BOLINAS MUSEUM: SOLO EXHIBITION
Hughen/Starkweather: Where Water Meets Land is on view at the Bolinas Museum September 23–November 12, 2017. The exhibit features recent works from Hughen/Starkweather’s project, Shifting Shorelines, in which the artists investigate areas where water meets land, and the complex human, environmental, and historical factors that shape these places. The exhibit includes historic items from the museum archives used by the artists as source materials for the artworks. Related events include a performance by artist Constance Hockaday and Miwok poet Sky Road Webb on October 7, and a panel discussion Between the Tides: Living Shorelines in a Time of Climate Change on October 21 moderated by Alison Sant of the Studio for Urban Projects. Please visit the museum website for more information.

Bolinas Museum, 48 Wharf Road, Bolinas, CA, bolinasmuseum.org 415 868 0330 Gallery hours: Fri., 1–5pm/ Sat–Sun, 12–5pm, and by appointment

September 2017
MINNESOTA STREET PROJECT, SAN FRANCISCO: SOLO EXHIBITION
Hughen/Starkweather: Adapt, Retreat, Defend, Abandon will be on view at Electric Works at Minnesota Street Project Sept 6–30, 2017. In their ongoing project Shifting Shorelines, Hughen/Starkweather investigate areas where land meets water, and the complex human, environmental, and historical factors that shape these places. Similar to early cartographers, dependent on inconsistent tools and word-of-mouth information, the artists follow a sometimes meandering trail of data, images, maps, and oral histories. The resulting drawings and paintings reinterpret the complex narratives of landscape, creating new and unexpected forms through which to view a place, its history, and its possible futures. Minnesota Street Project, 1275 Minnesota St., San Francisco.

November 2016-June 2017
CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM, SAN FRANCISCO
Hughen/Starkweather's video Requiem will be shown at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, from Nov 2016–June 2017 in the exhibition Inherited Memory and Contemporary Art. Requiem focuses on the damaged and dismantled East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, part of the daily lives of hundreds of thousands of Bay Area commuters for decades which now exists only in documentation and collective memory.