Flowers
This exhibition brings together work from a select group of individuals in celebration of the flower and demonstrates the way artists from a range of backgrounds, living in different times, experience and choose to interpret the same subject. Some opt to physically go out in nature and document specific species with descriptive titles, whereas others present the flower more generally as a romantic gesture of beauty, love or pain. There are those who use the flower as an allover pattern or “wallpaper” and those who depict it in flat, graphic or stylized terms. Some artists present the flower within the context of an interior, a landscape or a habitat where birds and insects draw nourishment. Others choose to abstract the form by enlarging, distorting, simplifying or placing it within the context of a much broader concept. The result of presenting an exhibition along this centralized theme challenges us to look at the flower anew, in a variety of unique ways, and to think of it as a symbol imbued with endless possibility.
Elizabeth Schwartz,
New York, June 2011
