ASBA
Announces
Celebrate
Botanical Art Week in New York City!
The week of September 13 - 17, 2010 will see three
major contemporary
botanical art exhibitions opening in New York.
One is an institutional collection, one
a juried international, and one highlights a private collection. There is nothing like
seeing botanical art in the original for those who wish to learn or
those who simply wish to enjoy its beauty.
Consider making a trip to NYC to catch
all three of these openings, or plan a trip later in the fall to see
all three exhibitions while they are on view.
Please make sure to check gallery hours
at each institution.
September
14th, Tuesday
Brooklyn
Botanic Garden
presents Portraits of a Garden V,
in the Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery, Saturday, September 11 through
Sunday, November 28. The opening reception will be on
Tuesday, September 14 from 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm.
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society's fifth biennial
commemorates the society's tenth anniversary with a selection of
artworks created from BBG's living collections and 250,000-specimen
herbarium. Since the society's inception a decade ago, 50 eminent
botanical artists have reinvigorated the 400-year-old tradition of
recording the exuberance and beauty of flowering plants. Today, the BBG
Florilegium is one of the most important collections of contemporary
botanical art in the world. For more information, directions and other
programs, please visit: www.bbg.org
September
15th, Wednesday
The
Thirteenth Annual ASBA/HSNY Juried International Exhibition
at The Horticultural Society of New York,
Wednesday evening, September 15 through Wednesday, November 24. The
opening reception will be on Wednesday, September 15 from 6:00 pm to
8:00 pm.
The American
Society of Botanical Artists' eagerly anticipated annual
exhibition at The Horticultural Society of New York will be
hung in HSNY's fresh, contemporary gallery space in Midtown Manhattan.
This highly competitive exhibition always showcases a selection of
international artists alongside US artists. Chosen from a field of 205
entries, the 41 pieces are some of the best contemporary botanical art
in the world. For information on workshops and jurors' walk-throughs,
directions and other programs, please visit www.hsny.org.
For information on the American Society
of Botanical Artists, please visit www.AmSocBotArtists.org.
September
16th, Thursday
The
New York Botanical Garden presents: "Botanicals:
Environmental Expressions in Art, the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton
Collection,"in the Arthur and Janet
Ross Gallery
from Saturday, September 4,
2010, through Sunday, January 9, 2011.
The opening reception will take place on
Thursday, September 16 from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. RSVP to 718.817.8598.
"Botanicals:
Environmental Expressions in Art, the Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton
Collection" is the largest contemporary botanical art collection in
private hands in North America, and it is a stunning compendium. >From his first
acquisition in 1998, Isaac Sutton's impeccable eye has sought out some
of the best images created around the world. Working with
Curators Susan Frei Nathan and Alice Marcus Kreig, Sutton selected the
44 images on view from his sizeable collection of botanical art
treasures. For information on classes in botanical art, directions and
other programs, please visit www.nybg.org.
