Christine & Margaret Wertheim: Value and Transformation of Corals art Green Patina

Green Patina

and other ephemera

hyperrealistic paintings of Black bodies in water reckon with the legacy of racial injustice

Philippe Noiret

Christine & Margaret Wertheim: Value and Transformation of Corals art Green PatinaAustralian born, California based sister artists Margaret and Christine Wertheim draw on a unique fusion of mathematics, marine biology, traditional handicraft methods and collective art practice to create large scale coralline landscapes both beautiful and blighted. Responding to anthropogenic crisis, their soft sculptures and wall mounted reliefs simulate living reefs using crochet techniques to mimic in yarn the curling, crenelated forms of actual