Working with land-based materials, Christine Howard Sandoval excavates the knowledge systems and histories that lie dormant in archives, architecture, and the land itself. Move the Plot debuts Howard Sandoval’s newest body of work, a study of the layered histories present in Bay Area and Central Valley wetlands. With adobe forms, dyes made from local medicinal plants, and modular steel structures, it puts archival traces of Indigenous resistance and knowledge in tension with the modern engineering technologies that continue to transform California’s marshes.  

Christine Howard Sandoval: Move the Plot brings the artist’s practice home to San José, where she grew up. 

Support

Christine Howard Sandoval: Moving the Plot is made possible by the SJMA Exhibitions Fund, with major support from Brook Hartzell and Tad Freese.

Operations and programs at the San José Museum of Art are made possible by principal support from SJMA’s Board of Trustees, and a Cultural Affairs Grant from the City of San José and the Skyline Foundation; by lead support from the Lipman Family Foundation, the Adobe Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Toby and Barry Fernald, Tad Freese and Brook Hartzell, the Richard A. Karp Charitable Foundation, Tammy and Tom Kiely, Yvonne and Mike Nevens, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Teiger Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the SJMA Director's Council and Council of 100; and with significant endowment support from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and the San José Museum of Art Endowment Fund established by the Knight Foundation at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.