At R. Blitzer, Two Approaches to Viewing Earth

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Jun 07 2012
Kent Manske's maps of the San Francisco Bay at R. Blitzer Gallery on First Friday. Photo by Traci Hukill.

Last fall, local artist Lisa Hochstein discovered that the U.S. Geological Survey’s Pacific Coast and Marine Science Center shared more with the R. Blitzer Gallery than an address at the former Wrigley Building—they shared a wall. Struck by the metaphor of this relationship between art and science, Hochstein began musing about their presumed separation. “The two have much in common: a curiosity about the world, an impulse to explore and probe deeply,” she explains. “Both search for aspects of truth. And both recognize that knowledge is elusive and always subject to challenge and refinement.”

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