Guest gallery The Jones Institute presents a new short film documenting the creative process of three great artists in conjunction with their exhibition The Lily Too Shall Function. Curated by Studio Ahead and bringing together three Northern California coastal artists, Nathan Lynch, John Gnorski and Jessica Switzer Green, the exhibition is on view at The Jones Institute’s main gallery at 963 Hayes Street from November 3, 2023 through December 10, 2023. By appointment. At MSP, Pavló Fedorov's 23-minute film about the artists, also titled The Lily Too Shall Function, screens on a loop.

From his ceramics studio in San Geronimo, Lynch creates clay sculptures at once alluring and strange, and looking like they’re melting back into the earth they were molded from. These works, with their humorous acceptance of decay and folly, represent a mind at peace with its surroundings. Lynch also teaches ceramics at California College for the Arts (CCA).

Gnorski’s woodblock prints are inspired by the open fields of Point Reyes and feature figures asleep in flower beds, dreaming idly; while his lanterns, made of washi paper and resembling birds, illuminate the slow passing of the day as they alight on bed stands. A recent transplant to Inverness, Gnorski is a musician, home builder, and co-hosts a community radio show every other Sunday on KWMR along with his partner, the filmmaker Katie Bernstein.

Jessica Switzer Green lives among the sheep pastures of Sonoma. Her woolworks, including a series of large floor pillows made in collaboration with Studio AHEAD, also on display, come from a desire to use the woolen fleece of her flocks. These pieces leave in the natural textures and tones of each season’s wool, reminding us, in their unprocessed state, of humankind’s ancient bond with the animal world. A former Tesla executive, Switzer Green is also an oil painter.

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