Light Artist: Melissa Auerbach Schaeffer Title: The Memory of Summer Candlelight Contentment  Series: Biohazardous Series: A Healing Series (Series of 44 different trees, a grove) Photographed 35mm film: Spring 2014 Luxembourg Gardens, Paris France (elm bark) Developed: 2014 Light Waves, San Francisco Printed: 2018 Blue Moon Photography Portland, Oregon Framed: 2019 Underglass, San Francisco,  Frame … read more

WILD FLOWER series film photographed on the hanalei river and the north shore of Kauai in September 2011. Exhibited April 2012 OPENING Divine Feminine Hibiscus dancing in the river while kayaking ENTERING Divine Masculine Banana Flower Presence while on foot to the ocean SEA CHILDREN photographed on Steps Beach Nantucket summer 2012. Exhibition summer 2013 … read more

artwork by light artist Melissa Auerbach Schaeffer FLOATING ISLAND Melissa Auerbach Schaeffer ICELAND series (2009 photographed, 2010 printed and framed) 35mm film transparency Ash framed (in situ staining to barreled ceiling) Museum glass 2010 Year long installation of 15 artworks at Etoile, Domaine Chandon Winery Yountville, CA Different natural light throughout the day and season … read more

In this time of what is described as chaos, which can be referred to as Pisces, which in human gestation, approximately nine months, sometimes more, sometimes less, originates in Gemini, the wilderness, the nature speak, the communication, the quick movement, the whimsy, the magical cusp into Cancerian, which summer solstice speaks to, there are some … read more

ImagineARiver Press is a collaborative print shop run by printer Sy Auerbach. At the heart of the press is ‘Bertha’ a 1922 10×15 Chandler and Price. ‘Bertha’ lives in the downstairs of an 1896 Carriage House on a hill above Dolores Park in San Francisco. The shop is simultaneously a studio to develop work, a … read more

My siblings (and I) installed their show In the Church of Saint Anne (Sy Auerbach) and MIRAGE AND MIRROR (Melissa Schaeffer) at Gospel Flat Farm in Bolinas, California yesterday. In the Church of Saint Anne is a series of prints in homage to the patron saint of lace, books, pregnancy, and grandparents. They were made … read more

The last stop on the 2016/2017 MARIN SERIES library tour…TITANIA, a Fairfax fern, DESDEMONA, ivy climbing up a Fairfax tree, and KATHARINA, golden grass of Woodacre, are on view at the Larkspur Library through the month of August.  They are 3 of 11 pieces of MARIN SERIES by light artist Melissa Schaeffer.  She also wrote … read more

In MARIN SERIES, eleven photographic film transparencies cast the nature of Marin County as William Shakespeare’s female characters. The series was a collaboration between light artist Melissa Schaeffer and fiber artist John C. Morris, who hand-wrote the exhibit text in calligraphy. The MARIN SERIES exhibit tour was organized by John C. Morris, and traveled to … read more

Hidden Nature: An Interview Melissa Schaeffer: What is the aura of something hidden? John C. Morris: The aura of something hidden…is…at first seems like a paradox because you think of it as visualizing an aura and visualizing something’s aura or someone’s aura. So if it’s hidden it seems like you can’t visualize it…yet…you could also … read more