Tiffany Bozic: The Fragile Key

An Exhibition by Tiffany Bozic
Presented in partnership with: Marin Museum of Contemporary Art (MarinMOCA)
Location: Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary, Tiburon, CA
March 20 – May 30 2027

The Fragile Key is an exhibition exploring interconnected life, ecological balance, and the ethics of attention, presented at the Richardson Bay Audubon Center & Sanctuary.

The exhibition features new and recent work by contemporary painter Tiffany Bozic, developed in partnership with MarinMOCA and the Audubon Center. Through large-scale acrylic-on-wood panel paintings, the work examines relationships between species, ecosystems, and human perception. Each painting is grounded in careful observation and long-term engagement with the natural world, drawing on Bozic's field research and ongoing collaborations with scientists and natural history institutions.

Installed within the historic Lyford House, at least eight large-scale paintings explore different ways of seeing and understanding the natural world. Together, they ask visitors to slow down and look closely at relationships that are often easy to overlook.

Extending beyond the Lyford House, a site-specific Art-into-Nature trail will place a series of small paintings throughout the sanctuary, each depicting a species found at Richardson Bay and visually integrated into the place where it might naturally be encountered. Developed in collaboration with Audubon staff, the trail becomes a curated journey of attention: the paintings are not the destination, but keys that invite visitors to notice what was already there.

The exhibition aligns with shared values of conservation, stewardship, and public education. Rather than presenting nature as spectacle, The Fragile Key asks what happens when we slow down and pay attention to the living world around us. Set within a living sanctuary, the exhibition asks visitors to carry that attention beyond the paintings and back into the world around them.