Happy Hour
with Isabella Kirkland
Photo by Long Now Artist-In-Residence Christopher Michel
RSVP required, cash bar, capacity is limited. We may be able to accommodate +1s please reach out to us at events@longnow.org to inquire.
We invite you to join us to celebrate artist Isabella Kirkland and the release of her upcoming limited-edition archival artist monograph.
Isabella Kirkland’s meticulously rendered paintings exist at the intersection of art, ecological inquiry and activism. Through richly detailed compositions, her monograph documents species that are extinct, endangered, illegally trafficked, or emerging from near-extinction — inviting close observation and reflection on biodiversity, impermanence, and environmental responsibility.
We’ll have delicious drinks, light bites, and lively conversation. Isabella Kirkland monograph available for purchase; Limited edition of 750.
About Isabella Kirkland
Isabella Kirkland is a visual artist and biodiversity researcher known for intricate, scientific paintings that intertwine art history, natural science and ecological activism. Learn more about her long-time collaboration with Long Now from her 02016 talk Painting the Endangered World.
As beautifully captured by Long Now Artist-In-Residence Christopher Michel —
Isabella, or Izzi as many call her, has spent years painting life at the edge of disappearance. Not loosely, not interpretively, but with a kind of attention that feels almost protective. Her paintings are dense with detail. Beetles, birds, shells, plants, each one rendered with precision, each one given the same weight. Nothing is too small. Nothing is decorative.
Her work is known for these vast, intricate compositions. Fields of life assembled into a single plane where time and place blur together. Species that would never meet in the wild sit side by side. Some still living. Some already gone. You start to realize that what looks like abundance is also a kind of record. A ledger of what exists, and what is slipping away.