Upcoming Exhibits

The GARDEN: THISTLE AND THORN

Co-Curated by Jorge Benitez and Reni Gower / Wylie Contemporary, Inc

Perceptually tactile and expressively verdant, elemental references to light, air, water, earth, and fire are embedded in the interdisciplinary works by the eight artists featured in The Garden. Benitez’s luxuriant weavings seemingly float on the breath of a breeze, while Baroque arabesques and Chinese Gongshi animate Bolduan’s intimate landscape paintings. Geometric constructs are fused with the organic in Bowring’s layered lattices, Crotchett’s burnished encaustics, Gregson’s topographical mappings, and Potter’s striated weavings crafted with fibers harvested from a papermaker’s garden. The optical and spiritual effects of color and light are radiant in Gower’s elusive papercuts as well as in Tapia’s fiery and fluid watercolors.