Completed Project Announcement: celebrating the creative energy of California

Artsource Consulting is proud to announce the completion of an art program for the offices of a global energy company in California, featuring exceptional site-specific commissions by renowned Bay Area artists. These artworks, along with others in the collection, were thoughtfully curated to align with the company’s vision and presence in California, celebrating the region’s rich diversity of people, cultures, environments, and ecosystems.

The collection places a special emphasis on works that explore the dynamic relationship between human energy, nature, science, technology, and innovation. These pieces are not only a source of inspiration for the workforce but also a tribute to the creative energy of the Bay Area and California, regions known for fostering artistic innovation and bold expression.

Lordy Rodriquez
Scales; Local, Regional, and Global, 2024
ink on paper

Maps play a ubiquitous and vital role in exploration, planning, community understanding, and serving the human population. Artist Lordy Rodriquez, based in the Bay Area, employs abstract map-like imagery in his visual and conceptual practice to convey intricate details about the company and its societal significance.

This triptych articulates a visual narrative encompassing local, national, and global perspectives, traversing past, present, and future realms. It delves below and above the ground, blending technical and organic elements, as well as structural and geological features. The artwork draws inspiration from a diverse array of sources, including contemporary and historical maps as well as materials sourced from the company’s archives.

Watch Lordy Rodriquez discuss his work here.

 

LMNL Studio
Landscape, Dreaming, 2024
Video with Generative AI

Conceived as a collaboration between the artists at LMNL Studio and AI, Landscape, Dreaming was created using hundreds of images of people from the company’s historical archive to create the minuscule particles comprising the wave forms. Local landscape photography from California drives the shifting color palettes and undulating topographies of the work, which is constantly regenerating and reimagining itself with the help of AI. The people and place of this company are the DNA of this piece, which itself becomes an enactment of collective energy.

Watch Jamie Shaw and Marcus Guillard from LMNL Studio discuss their work here.

 

Adia Millett
Layers of Truth, 2024
acrylic on wood

Oakland-based artist Adia Millett creates work that investigates the interconnectivity among all living things. Her multi-disciplinary practice includes painting, quilting, stained glass, collage, video sculpture and installation and is informed by taking things apart, replacing, mending, sewing, and building. This process of piecing together and rebuilding is a metaphor for collaboration and partnership. Layers of Truth uses abstraction to reveal the diverse components that make up the earth’s surface. Inspired by company’s work in tackling carbon emissions and landscape restoration, Millett uses different shapes and colors to suggest how liquids, solids, and gasses interconnect. The chevron shape, often found in ancient pottery and textiles, serves as a visual representation of unity with two equal lines connecting at a point. As it points upwards, the chevron signifies the human quest for higher knowledge and spiritual growth.

Watch Adia Millett discuss her work here.

 

Ron Moultrie Saunders
Adaptable: Pincushions and Soybeans, 2024
digital cyanotype on aluminum panel

Ron Moultrie Saunders is a photographic artist and landscape architect living in San Francisco. He creates photograms – photographs that are made without the use of a camera. This process consists of using actual plant material in the darkroom to create abstract compositions. Adaptable: Pincushions and Soybeans grew out of Saunders’ research into the company’s renewable energy work and the use of the soybean plant as a biofuel. Connecting this technology to the local landscape, Saunders expands and repeats the Pincushion flower, a native plant to California with a self-seeding, renewable seed.

Watch Ron Moultrie Saunders discuss his work here.

 

 

Leo Bersamina
Mount Diablo, 2024
acrylic on panel

Leo Bersamina was born in San Francisco and grew up surfing and fishing on the coast, just South of the City. His work is informed by the relationships and patterns that humans create during their lives – from travel, habitat, and our own genetic makeup. This artwork explores Bersamina’s interest in indigenous textiles combined with the specific landscape of Mt. Diablo, near where the company is located. Starting from his practice of abstracting patterns from his own cultural heritage.  The patterns used in the work expand beyond the artist’s own cultural heritage, referencing commonalities in textiles and pottery across indigenous communities in an abstract way.

Watch Leo Bersamina discuss his work here.

 

Hughen/Starkweather
Interwoven Terrains, 2024
ink, gouache, and graphite on wood panel, paint on bronze

Bay Area artist team Hughen/Starkweather’s Interwoven Terrains explores the complex and often overlooked features of California landscapes, focusing on natural geologies interwoven with engineered infrastructures.

The organic forms depicted in the artwork evoke underground reservoirs, layers of sediment, ancient seas, core samples and rock outcroppings. Geometric shapes and linework symbolize data visualization maps, electromagnetic images of subterranean deposits, pipe systems, complex digital infrastructures, and other engineered systems all part of the company’s work. The bronze sculptural elements reference the metal infrastructures integral to modern technology and the energy industry. By combining these contrasting elements, the artwork generates curiosity about the complex and intricate relationship between nature and the built environment.

Watch Amanda Hughen and Jennifer Starkweather discuss their work here.