Now at Canessa Gallery
Cultivating Connection brings together the work of Oscar Lopez and Christa Grenawalt in a site-specific installation that explores our relationship to soil—not just as something we walk on or grow from, but as a living force.
Soil holds memory. It nourishes, regenerates, and heals.
Oscar’s figurative paintings trace this relationship through the body—where tending the land becomes a form of care for each other. Christa’s circular earthworks echo the cycles of nourishment and restoration, revealing how:
The hand that tends the earth tends the self.
Through painting, installation, and archival projection, Cultivating Connection honors the grounding power of soil—not only as the literal foundation of life, but as a site of labor, healing, and resistance. Archival images from the United Farm Workers (UFW) movement in Delano pay tribute to the often-invisible hands—immigrant and undocumented farmworkers—who continue to feed California and the world.
Presented in the historic Canessa Gallery, amidst a time of environmental, cultural, and social upheaval, Cultivating Connection is a call to remember:
What we cultivate becomes who we are. How do we care for what sustains us?
Soil holds memory. It nourishes, regenerates, and heals.
Oscar’s figurative paintings trace this relationship through the body—where tending the land becomes a form of care for each other. Christa’s circular earthworks echo the cycles of nourishment and restoration, revealing how:
The hand that tends the earth tends the self.
Through painting, installation, and archival projection, Cultivating Connection honors the grounding power of soil—not only as the literal foundation of life, but as a site of labor, healing, and resistance. Archival images from the United Farm Workers (UFW) movement in Delano pay tribute to the often-invisible hands—immigrant and undocumented farmworkers—who continue to feed California and the world.
Presented in the historic Canessa Gallery, amidst a time of environmental, cultural, and social upheaval, Cultivating Connection is a call to remember:
What we cultivate becomes who we are. How do we care for what sustains us?
