Two artists share a space (and more) at Green Chalk Contemporary.

As founder of print and online arts magazine works & conversations, and the West Coast editor of online philosophy magazine Parabola, Richard Whittaker serves as eyes and ears for many interviews with mostly Bay Area artists and thinkers. This Saturday, his work becomes the subject at a dual art show at Green Chalk Contemporary gallery in New Monterey. His half is called Visible and Invisible, and is made up of 18 black-and-white photos of what curator Gail Enns calls “mundane objects we see but don’t see,” like trees and rocks.

“He does a lot of [objects] in ones, twos and groups,” Enns says. “The ones are so sensitive, very much alone. But his twos, trees or rocks, are very romantic and beautiful, very entangled.”

Rebecca Clark, from D.C., is the other artist of this new show. Her 32 drawings of mostly birds look like meticulous graphite studies for the lavish ornithological drawings of John James Audubon’s The Birds of America, but with skewed compositions more fanciful than explicatory. There are no backdrops, just the animal against a stark limbo of blank paper.

“She’s an activist for endangered animals,” Enns says. And though thematically there seems to be little relationship between the two artists, there are connections. Whittaker interviewed Clark for works & conversations, then introduced her to Enns, and both study Buddhism.

Clark is set to work on a conservation awareness project with Seattle photographer and activist Chris Jordan, who worked recently with the Monterey Bay Aquarium and whale photographer Bryant Austin. Which means Green Chalk is looking more like a nexus for smart contemporary art in Monterey.

The opening reception for Rebecca Clark and Richard Whittaker is 6-8pm Saturday, at Green Chalk Contemporary, 616 Lighthouse Ave., New Monterey. 202-253-4507, 601-0534.