Artist: Nila Rusnell Oakes
Title: Bay Crossing III
Edition Size: 220
Medium: Prints - Giclee on Paper
Image Size: 13" x 39"
Physical Dim: 20" x 45"
About the Art: After spending many months on a painting residency in Galesburg, Illinois, artist Nila Rusnell Oakes began missing the endless horizons of the coastal landscape around her California home: Bay Crossing III is her homage to the San Francisco Bay Area. She explains: The shifting light rays and bay inlets offer the viewer a spiritual and visual welcoming similar to the feeling I had returning home." Meant to be viewed from left to right, notice how a very thin strip of land emerges on the horizon and leads your eye towards the rolling hills to the right, symbolizing for the artist, an "unfolding of events" that opens the work up to "narrative possibilities."