Sharon Beals is the author and photographer of
Nests: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them.
The Nest Series documents nest and eggs specimens dating from the 1800’s to present day from The
California Academy of Sciences, the Museum
of Vertebrate Zoology in Berkeley, the Western
Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology in Camarillo,
California; Cornell University Museum of
Vertebrates; and the National Museum of
Natural History at the Smithsonian. She has
traveled to Australia to photo at the Australian
National Wildlife Collection and to the Bishop
in Hawaii and has been photographing the nests
of extinct and endangered birds.
Besides the nests, she photographs wild native habitats and watersheds, and recently,
serpentine coastal fault lines. Responding to the issue of plastic ocean debris, she has
created photograms of plastic fragments to make large scale, deceptively beautiful yet
confrontational images.
Sharon Beals is the featured artist at Vedder Price from June 30 - October 31, 2021
