Intersect Aspen
August 1 - August 4, 2023
Summer...Blooms
Summer...Blooms
Inspired by the pure blue sky of Aspen and the abundance of summer flowers, NHG hosts a stand called “Summer…blooms,” which focuses on both climate change (in works by Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, Inez Storer, Linda Mieko Allen, Joan Bankemper), and the flowers of the imagination, echoing the blooms of Aspen, in works by (Joseph Raffael, Hung Liu, Don Eddy, Tiffany Shlain). Tiffany Shlain’s Humans +Flowers with text on a redwood tree ring includes the following verbiage:
Today: flowers and humans remain
Inextricable
Interdependent
Elements of nature
Nathalia Edenmont’s Dream a Little Dream is a perfect example of the marriage between humans and flowers. Creating a dress out of live blooms at the moment of fullness, Edenmont spends up to 10 hours to create a dress. Her 8 x 10 camera captures a model in a dress of fresh flowers, a moment in time, evanescent, nature in full bloom, about to wither when the dress is dismantled, a metaphor for climate change. Everything is real in Edenmont’s hands, no photoshop, no digital manipulation.
Nicolas Africano’s new glass Daphne sculptures are another example of the inextricable nature of humans and flowers. Daphne was turned into a laurel tree by Gaia in Greek mythology. In his figure sculptures the artist captures the nymph appearing to be in flight with flowers and branches curling around her arms and legs, transforming, she is (still) human as she becomes nature.
Nancy Hoffman Gallery
Intersect Aspen 2023
