The Length of Rivers

Artist: Arrowsmith, Dawn b. 1951

Date: 2023

Medium: Giclee print

Artwork Dimensions: 24 x 19 in.

County Department: Medical Examiner

Artwork Site: Medical Examiner Old Administration Building

Supervisorial District: 1

Current Status: On view

About the Artwork: Grounded in the deeply personal experience of growing up in a forest in the Pacific Northwest, this work became part of a project for exploring the artist's connection with nature through the abstracted visual poetics of the cellular level of trees, the flow of water and the beauty of clouds in blue skies.

This print is 2/2.

About the Artist: Dawn Arrowsmith is an American artist based in Los Angeles, California.  She has exhibited her paintings, works on paper, sculptures, installations and performance work in the United States, Europe and Asia. Her work is included in museum, corporate and private collections including Eli Broad/Sun America; Claremont Lewis Museum of Art; The Capital Group Foundation; Ducal Palace, Gubbio, Italy; Princess Madawi M. Aboulaziz of Saudia Arabia and the Jeffrey Schrager Collection.

Exhibitions include the Armand Hammer Museum of Art in Los Angeles; Eli Broad Foundation in Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (Barnsdall); Claremont Lewis Museum of Art; Huntington Beach Art Center; Torrance Art Museum; Toomey-Tourell Gallery in San Francisco; Daniel Saxon Gallery; Jancar Gallery; 515 Gallery, Los Angeles; William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica; Tufenkian Gallery, Glendale, CA; PRJCTLA; David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Brennan & Griffin, New York.

International exhibitions include the Lidovy Gallery in Prague and Galerie Califia in Horazdovice, Czech Republic; Ducale Palace in Gubbio, Italy; East China University in Shanghai, China; Museum of Contemporary Art in Minsk, Belarus; Zirrat Bankasi Gallery, Ankara, Turkey; Giacomo Projects, Venice, Italy; and Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.

Arrowsmith was born in San Francisco and received her B.F.A. from California State University Fullerton and her M.F.A. at Claremont Graduate University.  She lives and maintains her studio in Los Angeles.