“This collection of object silhouettes from issues of the Whole Earth Catalog is laid out to resemble images of equipment inventories from the Apollo missions: items spread out in an...
“This collection of object silhouettes from issues of the Whole Earth Catalog is laid out to resemble images of equipment inventories from the Apollo missions: items spread out in an orderly fashion against (mostly blue) backdrops. Even if the objects in an inventory are unrecognizable, their importance is implied simply by their orderly positioning. This is a future inventory, culled from the past, originally conceived as a guide to gathering the items we'll need to survive a potential disaster—something like the multiple crises we're currently experiencing.” Printed by Spudnik Press, Chicago.
Sarah Hotchkiss is a San Francisco-based artist and arts writer. Recent projects include the solo exhibition Sleuth at Friends Indeed, San Francisco; You're weird for building this, a two-person show at Royal NoneSuch Gallery, Oakland; and Space Travel Sci-Fi Style, a performative lecture at the Exploratorium. Her work has been featured in the San Francisco Arts Commission’s public art program, and in group shows at Cheymore Gallery, Tuxedo Park; Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco; and Hunter East Harlem Gallery; New York. She has attended residencies at Skowhegan, ACRE and the Vermont Studio Center. She watches a lot of science fiction, which she reviews in the semi-regular publication Sci-Fi Sundays. In 2019 she received the Dorothea & Leo Rabkin Foundation grant for her work covering the Bay Area art scene as the senior associate editor of KQED Arts.