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Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift
January 22 - March 15, 2025

Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift

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Overview
Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift
Haines Gallery proudly presents State Shift, our second solo exhibition with artist MEGHANN RIEPENHOFF. Opening in tandem with SF Art Week 2025, this highly anticipated show debuts a poetic, visceral, and personal body of work that expands Riepenhoff’s collaboration with both the cyanotype and the environment.
  
Riepenhoff creates her cyanotypes directly within the landscape, allowing the elements to leave physical inscriptions on paper coated with photographic materials. Marking an important breakthrough in her practice, State Shift sees the introduction of new pigments and gestures into Riepenhoff’s process. The signature inky indigos and glacial blues of her cyanotypes are transformed with vivid flashes of green, coral, magenta, and shimmering metallic hues, the result of organic materials (mica, mushroom ink, and ginkgo chlorophyll) and manufactured pigments (a nod to the human presence in the landscape).
 
The title State Shift, which names both the exhibition and the series on view, is a geological term describing dramatic and sudden changes to ecosystems — often when critical thresholds are crossed.
 

“The physical nature of my work, where photography-based media come in contact with rain, waves, wind, and wintry environments, is a call to be in closer contact with our environment, in a time of deep separation between humans and our ecosystems,” Riepenhoff has said. In issuing this call — both to herself and to viewers — the artist invites us all to consider the personal and collective shifts we might make to preserve our shared home. State Shift emerged from difficulty and explores sites of climate devastation, but is rooted in the possibilities of transformation and hope. “Hope,” the author and activist Rebecca Solnit has written, “is a belief that what we do might matter, an understanding that the future is not yet written.”


State Shift coincides with Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene, a major group exhibition opening at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University in February 2025 that features Riepenhoff's work. Originating at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, Second Nature will travel to the Anchorage Museum, AK following its presentation at the Cantor.

 

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Exhibition Views
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
  • Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Installation view of Meghann Riepenhoff: State Shift, January 22 - March 15, 2025 at Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
Selected Works
  • Meghann Riepenhoff Day 97: mushroom ink + Prussian Blue pigment + commercial pigment + ginkgo chlorophyll + Rattlesnake Lake + Moncton + oldgrowth stump, 2024 Unique Dynamic Cyanotype 46 x 70 inches, framed
    Meghann Riepenhoff
    Day 97: mushroom ink + Prussian Blue pigment + commercial pigment + ginkgo chlorophyll + Rattlesnake Lake + Moncton + oldgrowth stump, 2024
    Unique Dynamic Cyanotype
    46 x 70 inches, framed
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  • Meghann Riepenhoff Day 50: cyanotype + soda ash + breaths + lake water + windy dry cold, 2024 Unique Dynamic Cyanotype 34 x 46 inches, framed
    Meghann Riepenhoff
    Day 50: cyanotype + soda ash + breaths + lake water + windy dry cold, 2024
    Unique Dynamic Cyanotype
    34 x 46 inches, framed
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  • Meghann Riepenhoff Day 44: mushroom ink + Prussian Blue pigment + lake water + commercial pigment + mica, 2024 Unique Dynamic Cyanotype 46 x 34 inches, framed
    Meghann Riepenhoff
    Day 44: mushroom ink + Prussian Blue pigment + lake water + commercial pigment + mica, 2024
    Unique Dynamic Cyanotype
    46 x 34 inches, framed
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  • Meghann Riepenhoff Day 3: mushroom spore ink + organic, inorganic, and Prussian Blue pigment + hydraulic ram out spray, 2024 Unique Dynamic Cyanotype 64 x 46 inches, framed
    Meghann Riepenhoff
    Day 3: mushroom spore ink + organic, inorganic, and Prussian Blue pigment + hydraulic ram out spray, 2024
    Unique Dynamic Cyanotype
    64 x 46 inches, framed
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  • Meghann Riepenhoff Day 51: Prussian Blue pigment + lake water + butterfly pea flower + commercial pigment + mica, 2024 Unique Dynamic Cyanotype 25 x 28 inches, framed
    Meghann Riepenhoff
    Day 51: Prussian Blue pigment + lake water + butterfly pea flower + commercial pigment + mica, 2024
    Unique Dynamic Cyanotype
    25 x 28 inches, framed
  • Meghann Riepenhoff Days 46-49: mushroom spore ink + Prussian Blue pigment + tears + lake water + snow and sun + freeze and melt + time, 2024 Unique Dynamic Cyanotype 46 x 92 inches, framed
    Meghann Riepenhoff
    Days 46-49: mushroom spore ink + Prussian Blue pigment + tears + lake water + snow and sun + freeze and melt + time, 2024
    Unique Dynamic Cyanotype
    46 x 92 inches, framed
  • Meghann Riepenhoff Day 263.1: Waters of the Americas: Florida Department of Environmental Protection #8092, 2024 Unique Dynamic Cyanotype 28 x 62 inches, framed
    Meghann Riepenhoff
    Day 263.1: Waters of the Americas: Florida Department of Environmental Protection #8092, 2024
    Unique Dynamic Cyanotype
    28 x 62 inches, framed
  • Meghann Riepenhoff Day 287: mushroom ink + Prussian Blue pigment + algae pigment + commercial pigment + ginkgo chlorophyll + Rattlesnake Lake + Moncton boulders, 2024 Unique Dynamic Cyanotype 70 x 46 inches, framed
    Meghann Riepenhoff
    Day 287: mushroom ink + Prussian Blue pigment + algae pigment + commercial pigment + ginkgo chlorophyll + Rattlesnake Lake + Moncton boulders, 2024
    Unique Dynamic Cyanotype
    70 x 46 inches, framed

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