- Past Art Exhibition -

BOTANIC

March - May in the Aviary & the Hive - Opening reception March 8th

Alluvion Arts @ 414 presents Botanic, an exhibition that takes a collective look at our intimate relationship to the plant kingdom. Plants create and regulate the air we breathe, they provide us with food, medicine, textiles and building materials. Through thought provoking conceptual work, installations, botanical paintings and prints, sculptures, wood work and a freshly installed seed library, Botanic attempts to examine and honor the gifts of our botanical friends.

DREW AUSTIN

ARTIST STATEMENT:

In Japanese, there is a word for the sensation of light dappling through leaves and branches.

The word itself, Komorebi, is quite beautiful and the very idea of a concept wrapped into a single string of letters makes me think about how the English language lacks a word to describe such gorgeous phenomena. Our culture-and the very boundaries of our language-fail to make space for this form of noticing, so what does this say about our discomfort with impermanence, with the middle spaces between light and dark?

I consider light and shadow fluid objects-creatures that go out of their way to find "home" or solace, whatever the situation, with their physical bodies (much like I do as a human being). Reaching into every crevice of the world, light and shadow articulate the land, connect and obscure boundaries, and define each object in our three-dimensional reality.

This fluidity and intangibility define and concretize; illuminate the presence of a thing that might in the same instance reveal yourself reflected within it.

MEGAN HEERES

ARTIST STATEMENT:

I create sculptures, installations, and collaborative workshops that bring possibility, absurdity, and joy to our complex and tenuous situated-ness within "nature." | research misunderstood places like fields of invasive plants that depict an imbalance, as well as abundance; or the swamp, dark and unknown, that is also one of the most biodiverse places on earth. I understand these places as teachers, helping us to uncover new definitions and expectations for our environment. This inquiry into nature influences not only my art practice but also my practice in the development and management of public green spaces, people-centered design, and advocacy. Weaving my diverse practices together, I examine the idea of "nature" in the context of history, class privilege, race, gender, and equity.

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NIK BURKHART

ECO CORPS + CHAD WOMACK

TYLER FRANZ

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