{"id":949,"date":"2012-04-19T00:35:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T07:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2012-04-19T00:35:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T07:35:06","slug":"the-insect-art-of-kristen-rieke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"The Insect Art of Kristen Rieke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now through the end of April, <a href=\"http:\/\/missionpie.com\/\">Mission Pie<\/a> in San Francisco features a beautiful collection of insect paintings and sculptures by local artist <a href=\"http:\/\/kristenrieke.carbonmade.com\/projects\/3159536#1\">Kristen Rieke<\/a>. I happened to find them by accident while meeting Mrs. Swarm after work one evening for chai and pie&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_951\" style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-951\" class=\" wp-image-951\" title=\"kristen_rieke_missionpie\" src=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kristen_rieke_missionpie-764x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picture of Rieke&#39;s works I hastily took, in between shoving pie-laden forks into my face<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 626px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5229\/5601854904_f2ffa8af47_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"273\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Rieke, &quot;Disappearance.&quot; Oil on Panel, 2011.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_950\" style=\"width: 633px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kristenrieke.carbonmade.com\/projects\/3159536#1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-950\" class=\" wp-image-950\" title=\"kristen_rieke_remain\" src=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kristen_rieke_remain.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"623\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kristen_rieke_remain.jpg 775w, http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/kristen_rieke_remain-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-950\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Rieke, &quot;Remain&quot;, 2011. (Photo by Katie Simmons)<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 382px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5306\/5601270121_8158ed3755.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"349\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Rieke, &quot;Gone&quot;, Oil on Panel, 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5106\/5601855008_7eb8094ae4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Rieke, &quot;Termites&quot;, Oil on Panel, 2011<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Check out more honeycomb-laden work at her <a href=\"http:\/\/kristenrieke.carbonmade.com\/\">site<\/a>. Much of her work focuses on humanity&#8217;s connection to honeybees and the tragic consequences of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/pesticides\/about\/intheworks\/honeybee.htm\">colony collapse disorder<\/a>.\u00a0 In addition, moths, beetles, and termites also receive attention and adulation. Here&#8217;s hoping more of her work pops up around the Bay Area! <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-681\" title=\"z end\" src=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/insectgod_Vtiny.jpg\" alt=\"z end\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now through the end of April, Mission Pie in San Francisco features a beautiful collection of insect paintings and sculptures by local artist Kristen Rieke. I happened to find them by accident while meeting Mrs. Swarm after work one evening &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/?p=949\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[80,417,101,162,418],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","tag-bee","tag-kristen-rieke","tag-moth","tag-san-francisco","tag-termite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/endless-swarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}