Radiant Circle (#3), 2024

Collage with hand-cut and painted papers, watercolor, gouache

20 x 20 in.

Lena Wolff is an artist, craftswoman, and democracy activist who has been based in the San Francisco Bay Area since the early 1990's. Her work extends out of American folk-art and quilt making traditions, minimalism, geometric abstraction, pattern and decoration movements, feminist art and social practice, with a studio output that spans drawing, collage, sculpture, text, frequent collaboration, and public projects. In 2017, she formed Art for Democracy as an independent project that began with an anti-hate poster in the Bay Area, followed by a public art campaign to boost voter participation that has gained ongoing, national reach in over 25 US States. Her work has been presented in galleries and museums across the country and is held in the collections of ONE National Lesbian and Gay Archives, Berkeley Art Museum, Oakland Museum of California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Arts Commission, University of Iowa Museum, Stanford University and the Zuckerman Museum of Art, among others. She lives with her wife, artist, teacher, and illustrator, Miriam Klein Stahl and their daughter in Berkeley, California.

In recognition of their work merging art and civic engagement, November 12th was declared "Miriam Klein Stahl and Lena Wolff Day" in the City of Berkeley in 2019.

Lena's work can be found at Sarah Shepard Gallery in Larkspur, California.

Courtesy of the artist and Sarah Shepard Gallery