Bia Gayotto
Photography
My artworks aim to connect us with the natural environment and reveal the unseen.
Directions to Studio #3 at 33097 Timber Ridge Road, The Sea Ranch: From Hwy 1, turn inland and take Moonraker 1.0 miles up the hill, passing the intersection with Timber Ridge on the left and the "not a through street" sign. 33097 is the 2nd driveway on the left after the intersection, and the last house before the water tower.
Studio Tour Hours
Sept. 5-7
11 am to 5 pm
Open by appointment all year.
Studio closed Aug. 29-30.
I am a multimedia artist and curator working across photography, film, and video installation. Since moving from Los Angeles to The Sea Ranch in 2020, I’ve been compelled to make the invisible visible. Immersed in the redwood forest, I've centered my work on trees as living systems, exploring the intersections of ecology and art.
Through experimentation with materials and perception, I've developed works that reveal what is typically hidden: tree rubbings of ancient redwoods, photographic processes that expose unseen structures, sculptures that invite us to listen to the forest, and films that evoke underlying mycelial networks.
I earned my MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1996. My artwork has been featured in numerous national and international exhibitions, and is held in public and private collections across the U.S., Brazil, Greece, and Canada.
* The slideshow above is of my new photographic series, “Terra Infecta,” which blends art and science to honor the cypress trees felled at The Sea Ranch to contain pathogen spread.