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The Garden: Thistle & Thorn
The Garden: Thistle & Thorn
Ongoing - 2020
Ongoing - 2020
Co-curated with Jorge Benitez
Across the globe and from King to commoner, the garden has provided sustenance and pleasure throughout time in both corporeal and spiritual ways. As in Milton’s Paradise Lost or Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights to Monet’s Giverny or Thoreau’s Walden Pond, artists have portrayed the garden as an ever-evolving and fertile metaphor for life colored by contrasts. No matter its form, the garden protects and provides as much as it provokes and stimulates. In this time of anxiety and uncertainty, The Garden offers a much-needed refuge and heartening reprieve.
Itinerary
2020 - Piedmont Art Museum, Martinsville, VA
2022 - Mattatuck Art Museum, Waterbury, CT
2023 - Ridderhof-Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
Click on title or image for link to prospectus
Available for travel: Contact Reni Gower @ rgower53@comcast.net
Across the globe and from King to commoner, the garden has provided sustenance and pleasure throughout time in both corporeal and spiritual ways. As in Milton’s Paradise Lost or Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights to Monet’s Giverny or Thoreau’s Walden Pond, artists have portrayed the garden as an ever-evolving and fertile metaphor for life colored by contrasts. No matter its form, the garden protects and provides as much as it provokes and stimulates. In this time of anxiety and uncertainty, The Garden offers a much-needed refuge and heartening reprieve.
Itinerary
2020 - Piedmont Art Museum, Martinsville, VA
2022 - Mattatuck Art Museum, Waterbury, CT
2023 - Ridderhof-Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
Click on title or image for link to prospectus
Available for travel: Contact Reni Gower @ rgower53@comcast.net
