Posts tagged David Paul Bayles
Fire & Ice: Our Changing Landscape
Fire & Ice: Our Changing Landscape

April 9 - September 26, 2022

First Floor Main Gallery

The Wildling Museum is pleased to announce Fire & Ice: Our Changing Landscape, on view April 9 - September 26, 2022, featuring a wide diversity of artwork, including video installations, photography, paintings, mixed media, and more, illustrating aspects of fire and ice.

While aesthetically appealing, these dramatic visuals also invite conversations about how increasingly frequent and severe fires are altering our landscape, particularly in the Western United States. Equally concerning is the retreat of glaciers and shrinking snowpack, and warming permafrost in our colder climes. Also included in the exhibition is “Letters to the Future,” an on-site installation by artist Xavier Cortada of the University of Miami, which invites visitors to write down their own efforts to help mitigate climate change.

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Past ExhibitRuben MislangClimate Change, Fire and Ice, Environmental Alliance of Santa Barbara County Museums, Environment, David Paul Bayles, Xavier Cortada, Zaria Forman, Amiko Matsuo, Anna McKee, Ethan Turpin, The Environment Makers, Suze Woolf
June 15th | Following Fire: Documenting a Forest's Uncertain Future
June 15th | Following Fire: Documenting a Forest's Uncertain Future

Join the Wildling Museum on Wednesday, June 15, 5 - 6 p.m. for a special Zoom presentation by current exhibiting photographer David Paul Bayles and ecosystem scientist Fred Swanson as they share more about their work together, which weaves a complex story of forest resilience – retention of carbon, nutrients, and abundant life – countered by the challenges posed by a legacy of land use in an age of climate uncertainty.

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Past Programs/EventsRuben MislangDavid Paul Bayles, Fredrick J. Swanson, Forest Fires, Climate Change
20/20: A Retrospective
20/20: A Retrospective

November 7, 2020 - February 14, 2021

Second Floor Valley Oak Gallery

Wildling Museum of Art and Nature will mark its 20th anniversary with a special exhibition celebrating the Museum’s 20-year history in the Santa Ynez Valley. 20/20: A Retrospective will showcase 20 works spanning two decades of exhibitions representing one work for each year of the Wildling Museum’s history.

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Past ExhibitRuben MislangRetrospective, 20th Anniversary, John Fery, David Paul Bayles, Everett Ruess, John Iwerks
Trees in Transition: The Photography of David Paul Bayles
Trees in Transition: The Photography of David Paul Bayles

As a fascinating counterpoint to our woodworkers exhibition, we presented the photography of David Paul Bayles. "David Paul Bayles left Los Angeles in the mid seventies for the Sierra Nevada mountains to work one season as a logger. He fell in love with the physicality, the camaraderie and the dangerous work. One season became four as he worked setting chokers, bumping knots and skinning cat. To this day he struggles to answer how he could love trees and forests even as he loved the work that brought them down.

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Past ExhibitRuben MislangDavid Paul Bayles