Outdoor Art Gallery
@ North Shattuck
Featured Artist Profile
Phoebe
White
Hometown: Berkeley, CA
Phoebe White is an artist, landscape designer, and educator based in Berkeley, CA. Her work explores the relationships between plants, people, and place. Field work, drawing, and printmaking help her discover themes of playful form, color, seasonality, and ecology. This series of works celebrates the produce and plants that she finds integral to North Shattuck’s cultural landscape. All specimens were gathered from local gardens and markets.
ART ON DISPLAY
Piece Name: Early Autumn - Eggplant
Early Autumn - Eggplant explores the rich variety of eggplants found at Thursday’s North Berkeley Farmers’ Market. These eggplants were gathered and drawn in the early autumn - marking the last remnants of summer’s abundance.
Location: 37.88104, -122.26947 (near 1451 Shattuck Avenue in the median)
Piece Name: Early Autumn - Persimmon
One of my favorite features of Berkeley is the sheer amount of fruit trees found in gardens, on sidewalks, and in parks. I find that there is a really special community cultivated around the harvest of these trees; every summer and autumn neighbors, friends, and families exchange their bounties. Early Autumn - Persimmon investigates the unique shapes and colors of the fuyu persimmon - a vibrant harbinger of autumn and winter found throughout Berkeley.
Location: 37.88131, -122.2697 (near 1451 Shattuck Avenue in the median)
Piece Name: Morning Glory
Morning Glory celebrates the playful growth habit of the Ipomoea vine found all over Berkeley. At the peak of their bloom, this plant’s bright flowers glow in dusk’s fading light.
Location: 37.88135, -122.26935 (near 1451 Shattuck Avenue in the median)