Chandler Gallery is pleased to present Flora + Fauna, a group exhibition at Minnesota Street Project.
Exhibition Dates: 12 September – 24 October 2026
Exhibition Location: 1150 25th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12th from 5 to 7pm
Humans have always looked to the natural world to catalogue it, to understand it, to use it, and to make sense of their own place in it. Flora + Fauna brings together work by Mari Andrews, Gale Antokal, Shannon Belardi, Patrick Berran, Renée Bott, Tiffany Bozic, Squeak Carnwath, Jamie Emerick, Gianluca Franzese, Lachlan Hinwood, Haley Mellin, Lekah Singh, Ryan Steadman and Adam Wolpert.
The works span a wide range of approaches. Some are scientific in the approach of their subjects, precise and observational, nodding to the traditions of natural history illustration. Others are more symbolic or spiritual, and use abstraction or materiality as their primary language. Some artists construct their works from natural materials, or layer images of the natural world with human record and history. Others work directly from the landscape, returning to the same places across seasons. And some works address what happens when the human hand inevitably intervenes, tracing the ways our presence shapes, disrupts, and transforms the living world around us.
What connects the works is the position of the human eye as curious, reverent, and inextricably implicated. These artists are not outside nature looking in; they are part of it, and their work reflects that entanglement. Whether rendered with scientific precision or pulsing abstraction, with admiration or a quiet unease, the plants and animals in the exhibition are not merely subjects. They are interlocutors: the things we look at in order to better understand where we stand.
A portion of the proceeds of this exhibition will be donated by the artists and the gallery to Art Into Acres to support land conservation, in memory of artist and mentor Jane Rosen. Art into Acres is an artist-run, non-profit environmental initiative. Founded in 2017 by Haley Mellin, the nonprofit supports large-scale land conservation with a focus on climate, Indigenous peoples and beta-diversity. The lands protected are large, intact, and ecologically significant. They become new National Parks, Indigenous Protected Areas, and wildlife migration corridors that support species reproduction, movement and adaptation. Every project is locally requested and community- or Indigenous-led.
