Janet Zweig
Two Collectors
Bronze, 2024
Acorn Woodpeckers, abundant in Northern California oak woodlands, obsessively cover tree trunks with holes and pack them with acorns. They collect and hoard
more acorns than they will ever need. Like the Acorn Woodpecker, the artist has been collecting seeds and pods for decades. All of the seeds and pods chosen for this artwork are from trees local to the Sacramento area.
The artist thanks the Sacramento Tree Foundation and local collectors for contributing to the seed and pod collection featured in the artwork.
Project Manager: Shelly Willis
Fabricator: Independent Casting, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
Studio Assistants: Kyle Hittmeier, Audrey Doyle, Brooklyn, NY
Janet Zweig, Two Collectors, Process Photographs, 2024.
William Leaman, Alamy Artist’s Collection, Acorn Woodpecker.
Janet Zweig, Two Collectors, Process Photograph, 2024.
Janet Zweig, Two Collectors, Process Photographs, 2024.
About Janet Zweig
Through her art, Janet Zweig attempts to speak to viewers both as communities and as individuals. Rather than thinking of a community as a static entity, she addresses the reality of communities that are in change and motion. She wants to bring something new to a situation, to allow each viewer to see something in their own way, and to create engaging experiences. Much of her work is episodic and intimate, spreading many human-scale visual events over a large area. She also makes more monumental pieces when appropriate to the situation and the constituencies. While her work has a strong conceptual foundation, she strives for an elegance of form with attention to detail.
Her projects respond to local situations and create spaces for activity and thought. She developed a project for the City of Seattle in a tech-heavy area that references literature that people interested in tech – and anyone else -- might appreciate. In San Diego, she responded to local aesthetics while working with a climate scientist to make a piece that enacts the future climate of the area. In Kansas City, surrounded by trains and prairies, she worked with a local architect to place a glowing transparent boxcar in a prairie on a downtown rooftop. The boxcar doubles as a performance space for local performers and educators, creating a unique space within a downtown park.
About Janet Zweig
Through her art, Janet Zweig attempts to speak to viewers both as communities and as individuals. Rather than thinking of a community as a static entity, she addresses the reality of
communities that are in change and motion. She wants to bring something new to a situation, to allow each viewer to see something in their own way, and to create engaging experiences. Much of her work is episodic and intimate, spreading many human-scale visual events over a large area. She also makes more monumental pieces when appropriate to the situation and the constituencies. While her work has a strong conceptual foundation, she strives for an elegance of form with attention to detail.
Her projects respond to local situations and create spaces for activity and thought. She developed a project for the City of Seattle in a tech-heavy area that references literature
that people interested in tech – and anyone else -- might appreciate. In San Diego, she responded to local aesthetics while working with a climate scientist to make a piece that
enacts the future climate of the area. In Kansas City, surrounded by trains and prairies, she worked with a local architect to place a glowing transparent boxcar in a prairie on a downtown rooftop. The boxcar doubles as a performance space for local performers and educators, creating a unique space within a downtown park.