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Botanical Dreams and Nightmares
Juried by Cynthia Roznoy, Curator of Exhibition, Mattatuck Museum
April 25 – May 26, 2010
Reception: Sunday, April 25, 1 – 3:30 PM
Jazz by the Carol Sudhalter Duo
Walk & talk by Cynthia Roznoy, Tuesday, May 4th 7 PM
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| Gaia Assemblage, Heidi Lewis Coleman |
Artists include: Sara Augenbraun, Elizabeth Surbeck Biddle, Janice Bielawa, Donna Callighan, Heidi Lewis Coleman, Libby Collins, Christopher Curnan, Jennifer Davies, Ann Evans de Bernard, Liz Dexheimer, Anne Doris-Eisner, Katharine Draper, Nancy Eisenfeld, Renee Frentrop-Santhouse, Francine Funke, Debra Gilbert, Leslie Giuliani, Mikhail Gubin, Hyun Joo Jung, Linda Pearlman Karlsberg, Nancy Lasar, Shelley Lowell, Geraldine Marcenyac, Nancy McTague-Stock, Jane Rainwater, Tina Rohrer, Roxanne Faber Savage, Marlow Shami, Missy Stevens, Margaret Tsirantonakis, Deborah Weiss and Elizabeth White.
After a cold dormant winter and with the beginning of spring our thoughts turn to flowers, shrubs, herbs and grasses that begin their natural cycle of growth. This plant life or flowering of our surroundings affects our emotions and gives us a sense of wellbeing, a kind of lightness reflected in our clothing as well as our spirits.
As we enter a new age of genetically altered plants, it seems we have the capacity to permanently change much of what has happened naturally, and these “botanical dreams” have the potential to become nightmares. A call to artists for submission of works that explore the topic of botanical dreams and nightmares yielded many diverse approaches and media.