100% Compostable
January 23 – February 20
Reception: Friday, January 23, 5pm-7pm

ArtSpace404 boldly opens with its debut exhibit, 100% Compostable -a show featuring organic and biodegradable art juried by renowned Bay Area artist and curator Philip Ross. By challenging artists to stretch the parameters of media, 100% Compostable speaks to the environment’s temporal quality as it relates to the natural and human-inflicted process of degradation. This exhibition additionally highlights the artistic possibilities and limitations of using natural materials in today's art practices. Interested in submitting work? For an exhibit prospectus and entry form, click here!

Phil Ross is an educator at the San Francisco Art Institute and has curated exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. As an artist, his work transforms a variety of living species into sculptures that are highly crafted and naturally formed. He has been an artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, the Exploratorium, and SymbioticA.

Need ideas and inspiration? EcoPaints, EcoArtSupplies, EcoArtworks, MilkPaint, Ann-Katrin Spiess, Michele Brody, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Jackie Brookner, Green Museum. And there you have it, ArtSpace404 hails 'green' as 'the new black'.

Above: Andy Goldsworthy. "Leafhorn", 1994. Sweet chestnut leaves.