Natural Patterns: Featuring Danielle Eubank, Zo Frampton, and Katie Elizabeth Stubblefield

LAUNCH Gallery is proud to present Natural Patterns, featuring three Los Angeles-based artists: Danielle Eubank, Zo Frampton, and Katie Elizabeth Stubblefield. Collectively, their elaborate and insightful creations reflect the beauty and power of the natural world, while acknowledging the profound changes it is undergoing. They celebrate nature’s resilience, even as they document the onslaught of human excess and ignorance that threatens our planet. Fascination and wonder inspire these three documentarians of our current natural condition, as they convey hope and beauty on the two-dimensional surface with aplomb.

Danielle Eubank explores the relationship between abstraction and realism through painting water.  She created One Artist Five Oceans, a 20-year project where she sailed and painted the waters of every ocean on Earth to raise climate awareness.  Some of her most enriching experiences include Expedition Artist for the Phoenicia Ship Expedition, that circumnavigated Africa and as Expedition Artist in the UNESCO approved Borobudur Ship Expedition that traveled from Indonesia to Ghana.  Danielle is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.

"I have painted every ocean on Earth and over 200 bodies of water to forward the public conversation about how pollution threatens our seas and what we can do to support the environment. My art is international and collaborative. The goal of my work is to join art, culture and science to create a greater understanding of the changing planet. My work is about how water unifies us. Human history is intrinsically dependent on water and I want to invigorate people’s passion for it. If people observe and think about water, they will feel more passionate about protecting it. Aesthetically, I am looking for the tipping point between the conceptual and visible to create an emotive response. I consider forms created by ripples, oil slicks, or refuse a foundation for deconstruction. I create patterns within patterns, representing vertical stacks of rhythms in each painting."

Zo Frampton creates abstracted landscapes using black and white archival ink on either black or white hardboard surfaces, offering a striking visual meditation on shape and repetition. Her drawings build through accumulation, creating the illusion of three dimensions through layered depth and rhythmic mark-making. While each individual element is deceptively simple in form, the resulting compositions reflect a layered complexity—one that echoes the natural patterns she observes in the forest, ocean, and sky.

"My newest body of work explores edges and negative space. I’ve been thinking about the boundaries that we impose on the world and the cracks that form when nature is allowed into an urban environment. I’m thinking of the wildfire scars on the land and the footprints left behind and the edge of a planted field where the dirt is piled and wildflowers grow. I’m thinking of the horizon as it moves further and further away and the hidden paths we use to chase it."

Katie Elizabeth Stubblefield presents pieces from her recent body of work titled Collateral Damage. These works explore the current shape of California’s coastline with drawings on plexiglass that expose industry adulterating an otherwise bucolic landscape. These drawings, done on discarded plexiglass with Sharpie markers, are the result of a forensic study of past flood and fire zones, earthquake fault lines, global warming projections, and conspiracy theories. Mark-making from these maps intersect with imagery of local current, abandoned or reclaimed infrastructure.

"Initially, these works were inspired by the hair-raising twin tsunami test sirens I overheard while gallery-sitting at a gallery in Newport Beach, CA. My drive home along Pacific Coast Highway became a study in the collateral damage a tsunami would create along the low-lying highway. In these works, I am exploring this complex relationship: the stubborn refusal to quit trying to live here in the face of an all-powerful and capricious mother nature. Initially these works started simply as plein air studies, utilizing the scratched-up plexiglass as view finder and sighting tool. As I worked, I started overlaying with the landscaped and industrial imagery. Over time this imagery has evolved, building layers of drawing on both the front and back of the plexiglass, building density and shadow into the final works."

About the Artists 

Danille Eubank explores the relationship between abstraction and realism through painting water. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She created One Artist Five Oceans, a 20-year project where she sailed and painted the waters of every ocean on Earth to raise climate awareness.  Eubank is currently painting some of the most polluted bodies of water in the United States, including the Gowanus Canal, NY (a superfund site), and the San Francisco Bay, CA (multiple superfund sites), as well as the Pacific Ocean around the Channel Islands. She was a 2018 Creative Climate Award nominee and the awardee of the WCA/United Nations Program Honor Roll Award for 2019. Danielle Eubank holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Arts from UCLA. She exhibits her work in the United States, the United Kingdom, and in Europe and Asia.

Zo Frampton, a Los Angeles based artist, grew up surrounded by strong creative women who taught her to sew, knit and stitch. The repetitive nature of these traditional practices informed her sense of belonging and inspired her to create her own language of mark making. She received her MFA from the California College of the Arts and has shown her work in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Her current body of work consists of intricate monochromatic drawings in ink and acrylic on clayboard. She works out of her home studio in Topanga Canyon where her studio cat occasionally brings her furry friends to chase.

Katie Elizabeth Stubblefield creates wood cut prints, oil paintings, sculptures, large-scale drawings, and site-specific installations that explore order, chaos, and entropy. Growing up in Tennessee's old-growth forests before relocating to Southern California, she developed a fascination with tracking wind through tree canopies—an experience that continues to inform her investigation of nature's overwhelming power. Her imagery is informed by site visits, forensic photography, first-hand accounts, and evidence of changed environments caused by super-sized storm patterns and climate change. Working with both traditional materials and repurposed substrates like discarded plexiglass and sailcloth, Stubblefield transforms environmental debris into layered studies of ecological disruption and renewal.

Stubblefield holds an MFA from California State University, Long Beach, and teaches at Coastline College. She has received fellowships from the Long Beach Arts Council and a 2025 Kipaipai Artist Development Fellowship. Her works are exhibited nationally and held on consignment at galleries including K. Imperial Fine Arts, SCAPE, and SALT.