GARDENS OF GOOD AND EVIL August 30 – September 12, 2024, Meyer Gallery Santa Fe

I am pleased to announce my upcoming show at the Meyer Gallery in Santa Fe: “Gardens of Good and Evil” August 30 thru September 12, 2024. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, August 30, 5-7 pm.

My obsession for all things floral and beastly continues in “Gardens of Good and Evil”. I am particularly attached to the rose poems of Rainer Maria Rilke. William H. Gass, in his biography of Rilke, wrote: “Roses climb his life as though he were their trellis.” The poem “Contre qui, rose?” ask why the rose arms itself with thorns. Once again, I am drawn to the juxtaposition of beauty and danger, of love and pain. The paintings in this small intimate show explore the dualities in nature and the symbolism attached to certain flowers and creatures. I have also taken inspiration from the visionary William Blake, in whose art and writings, we find “deadly dreams of good and evil” and songs of innocence and experience.

Contre qui, rose,
avez-vous adopte
ces epines?
Votre joie trop fine
vous a-t-elle forcee
de devenir cette chose
armee?

~ Rainer Maria Rilke