Obi Kaufmann Bio, Age, Family, Art, The California Field Atlas, Books, Wife, Net Worth, Twitter, Instagram

Obi Kaufmann Biography

Obi Kaufmann is an American Illustrator, Naturalist, and writer. He is well known for his book “The California Field Atlas”, a guide to the state’s ecology and geography. The book is featured with hundreds of his watercolor paintings of maps, wildlife, and other aspects of nature.

Obi Kaufmann Age

His exact birthdate is currently unknown. According to our sources, Obi was born in 1973, he is aged between 45-46 years old as of 2019.

Obi Kaufmann Early Life|Education

Obi was born in Hollywood, California. His father’s name is “William J. Kaufmann III”. His father was an astrophysicist who served as director of the Griffith Observatory from 1970 to 1974, and also a writer of several books about physics. His mother is a clinical psychologist.

In 1978, his family moved from Southern California to Danville, California, a town in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. While living there, Kaufmann spent an extensive amount of time exploring Mount Diablo State Park. Coming to his educational background, Kaufmann studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He entered as a biology major but switched to visual arts after finding inspiration in wildlife painting and the rock art of the Chumash people. While at UCSB, he took art classes under the painter Ciel Bergman.

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Obi Kaufmann Career

After college, Kaufmann lived in the Pacific Northwest before moving to Oakland, California in the early 2000s, where he has resided since. Shortly after his return to the Bay Area, he switched from oil painting to watercolor. He has contributed wildlife artwork to a variety of publications. He was an arts writer for the East Bay Express, an alt-weekly serving the East Bay. Beginning in 2009, the brand Juniper Ridge employed Kaufmann as its “chief storyteller”; he eventually quit after he “got sick of selling shit.”

He later collaborated with the Swedish denim brand Indigofera on a line of natural-fabric clothing. He has worked as a tattoo artist for several years, dating back to his time living in the Pacific Northwest.  While he was preparing The California Field Atlas, he only took breaks to go on hikes or to work at a tattoo parlor in Oakland.

Obi Kaufmann California Field Atlas

Published in 2017, “The California Field Atlas” has held steady at number one on the San Francisco Chronicle’s Bay Area nonfiction bestseller list. The first printing sold out within a few months of publication. The second printing sold out in February 2018.

The book contains about 600 of Kaufmann’s paintings, divided between maps and wildlife paintings. His watercolors and texts spread across 10 chapters and more than 500 pages. The first eight chapters, with titles like “Of Earth and Mountains” and “Of Fire and Forests”, describe an ecological system. The ninth chapter is an overview of the 58 counties of California using geographical markers rather than human-built markers like roads.

The final chapter presents a case for ecological restoration and conservation of California through rewilding. Kaufmann sought to depict areas of natural beauty across the entire state, even in comparatively under-studied areas such as Colusa, San Joaquin, and San Benito, while avoiding undue focus on well-known tourist settings. In 2018, Kaufmann indicated that he would publish four follow-up books in 2019 and 2020.

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Obi Kaufmann Wife| Married

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Obi Kaufmann Net Worth

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