Fran Siegel

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Lineage Through Landscape
Side-view, 2017

Solo project at The Fowler Museum at U.C.L.A. included in the Getty’s “Pacific Standard Time/ Los Angeles/Latin America” region-wide initiative.
Commissioned by the Fowler Museum to develop a solo drawing project based on a candomblé ensemble from their collection, my drawing study of sacred leaves as a codified language of the ancestral landscape was researched during a 2015 Fulbright.
120 x 200 inches (room installation)

Lineage Through Landscape
Detail, 2017

Solo project at The Fowler Museum at U.C.L.A. included in the Getty’s “Pacific Standard Time/ Los Angeles/Latin America” region-wide initiative.
Commissioned by the Fowler Museum to develop a solo drawing project based on a candomblé ensemble from their collection, my drawing study of sacred leaves as a codified language of the ancestral landscape was researched during a 2015 Fulbright.
Detail of woven drawing

Lineage Through Landscape
Overview, 2017

Solo project at The Fowler Museum at U.C.L.A. included in the Getty’s “Pacific Standard Time/ Los Angeles/Latin America” region-wide initiative.
Commissioned by the Fowler Museum to develop a solo drawing project based on a candomblé ensemble from their collection. My study of sacred leaves as a codified cultural language of ancestral landscape occurred during a 2015 Fulbright.
120 x 200 inches (room installation)

Lineage Through Landscape
36 Hand-built Mounted Porcelain Leaves, 2017

Solo project at The Fowler Museum at U.C.L.A. included in the Getty’s “Pacific Standard Time/ Los Angeles/Latin America” region-wide initiative.
Commissioned by the Fowler Museum to develop a solo drawing project based on a candomblé ensemble from their collection, my drawing study of sacred leaves as a codified language of the ancestral landscape was researched during a 2015 Fulbright.
Detail of Porcelain leaves

Lineage Through Landscape
36 Hand-built Mounted Porcelain Leaves, 2017

Solo project at The Fowler Museum at U.C.L.A. included in the Getty’s “Pacific Standard Time/ Los Angeles/Latin America” region-wide initiative.
Commissioned by the Fowler Museum to develop a solo drawing project based on a candomblé ensemble from their collection, my drawing study of sacred leaves as a codified language of the ancestral landscape was researched during a 2015 Fulbright.
Detail of projected shadow

Lineage Through Landscape
Detail, 2017

Solo project at The Fowler Museum at U.C.L.A. included in the Getty’s “Pacific Standard Time/ Los Angeles/Latin America” region-wide initiative.
Commissioned by the Fowler Museum to develop a solo drawing project based on a candomblé ensemble from their collection, my drawing study of sacred leaves as a codified language of the ancestral landscape was researched during a 2015 Fulbright.
Detail of Porcelain leaves

Lineage Through Landscape
Re-exhibited and acquired by The Long Beach Museum of Art, CA in 2021, 2017

Solo project at The Fowler Museum at U.C.L.A. included in the Getty’s “Pacific Standard Time/ Los Angeles/Latin America” region-wide initiative.
Commissioned by the Fowler Museum to develop a solo drawing project based on a candomblé ensemble from their collection, my drawing study of sacred leaves as a codified language of the ancestral landscape was researched during a 2015 Fulbright.