Going South: Big Sur

Based in San Francisco, Kirk Crippens works as an independent artist. His work is held in the collections of Muse¿e la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium, RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, USA , and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, USA , amongst others. In 2016, Live Burls , a project about the poaching of the burls of the famous Redwood trees which he made together with Gretchen LeMaistre, was exhibited at Candela Gallery, Richmond ( VA ), USA , and Datz Museum of Art, Gwangju, South Korea. In 2017 the book Live Burls was published by Schilt Publishing, followed in 2018 by a show of this work at Schilt Gallery.