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May 3, 2009 – November 12, 2009 Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks: A Biographical and Botanical Art Exhibit Monticello's Jefferson Library, 1329 Kenwood Farm Lane, Charlottesville, Virginia See the work of regional artists and researchers as they have documented the life of Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks in the role as a doctor during her time. ASBA artists Lara Call Gastinger, Meta Carr, Wendy Cortesi, Esther Carpi, Debbie Bankert, and Vicki Malone, along with other regional botanical artists, exhibit their contemporary botanical paintings of herbal plants that were likely used during Lucy's era. A portrait of Lucy, painted in 1837 by John Toole will also be featured in the exhibit. The exhibit features two symposia, Lucy Meriwether Lewis Marks: Sustaining a Plantation Community, May 30;The Artists Speak: Creative Views on Botanical Art, October 4. Contact: Jefferson Library PH: 434.984.7540, library@monticello.org.
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Botanical Art Stanford University Faculty Club, 439 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, California A solo exhibition by ASBA member Sally Markell, featuring recent works in watercolor. This exhibit will be open to the public, Monday through Friday. Contact: hharband@stanford.edu for information Clamshell Orchid, 8x11", Watercolor, ©Sally Markell 2009
June 30 - July 25, 2009
Saturday, September 12 to Sunday, November 8, 2009 Inner Beauty- Paintings of Medicinal Plants by Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery Chelsea Physic Garden was founded in 1673 by the Society of Apothecaries to train apprentices in identifying useful plants. The Garden continues to this day to play a crucial role in pharmaceutical research and to display medicinal species of many cultures. The Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society was formed in 1995, with the aim of recording in paintings and drawings the plants growing in the Garden. Five years later, inspired by Chelsea's model, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society was established and, in 2003, the two Florilegium Societies affiliated. Brooklyn Botanic Garden celebrates that connection with an exhibition in the Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery of 45 watercolor paintings by 45 Chelsea Physic Garden Florilegium Society members. As a group, they represent many of the UK's best contemporary botanical artists. Some of the artists' work is well known in the US, but the work of others will be new to many. Artists represented include: Helen Allen, Mariella Baldwin, Gillian Barlow, Valerie Bradburn, Alison Brown, Andrew Brown, Janet Callender, Lesley Catchpole, Joanna Craig-McFeely, Sally Crosthwaite, Peggy Dawe, Ainslie Ensom, Kate Evans, Diana Everett, Angie Girling, Sarah Gould, Dugald Graham-Campbell, Norma Gregory, Yvonne Glenister Hammond, Mayumi Hashi, Margaret Hatherley-Champ, Judith Hillelson, Margaret King, Chrissie Lightfoot, Rosemary Lindsay, Barbara McLean, Catharine Nicholson, Shirley-Ann Nunn, Wendy Alexandra Page, Kay Rees-Davis, Lesley Ann Sandbach, Jenevora Searight, Judi Stone, Margaret Stones, Eiko Takano, Julia Trickey, Sally Vincent, Charmian White. Contact: Website: www.bbg.org. Rosa gallica var. officinalis The 'Apothecaries' Rose by Wendy Alexandra Page
May 23-September 30, 2009 The Wild Bunch Steamboat Art Museum, 801 Lincoln Avenue, Steamboat Springs, CO 80488 Steamboat Springs is the Colorado town where Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and others first met in 1898 to organize "The Wild Bunch Riders" to enlist in the war against Spain. They soon realized that their outlaw status made them unwelcome recruits, but the name stuck. With a nod to that notorious group, the six artists of Studio Botanica have organized their own wild bunch of wildflower paintings to exhibit. Wildflowers commonly seen in Colorado, painted in a variety of styles, will provide counterpoint to the RMSBA rare plant exhibit also at the museum. Exhibiting are ASBA members Peggy Turchette, Susan Rubin, Heather Myers, Constance Sayas, Bonnie Anthony and Carol Till. Contact: caroltill@mindspring.com, PH: 303.423.2687
July 1, 2009 - September 30, 2009 Reception July 9, 5-7:00 PM Plants in Transition, Paintings and Drawings by Jeanne Lotta-Sellars Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture, San Francsico Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum, Golden Gate Park, 1199 Ninth Avenue, San Francisco I find the strength in the waning plant giving nourishment and continuity and the promise of future in the waxing plant appealing, the cycle of life and death melding. Lifting the humble to a place of prominence through my artistic expression is a joy for me. My choice to not paint the plant in it's blooming glory is to celebrate the average and seek beauty in quiet places.
September 16 – November 24, 2009 The Twelfth Annual International Juried Exhibition at The Horticultural Society of New York 148 W. 37th Street, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10018 The Twelfth Annual Juried Exhibition at The Horticultural Society of New York will open on the evening of Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Barbara Macklowe is once again the major benefactor of this year's full color catalog, and many others have contributed as well. Exhibition jurors Francesca Anderson, Carol E. Hamilton, and Dick Rauh chose 41 artworks by 32 artists. Artists whose work will be shown are: Milly Acharya, Yara Anderson, Deirdre Bean, Margaret Best, Carolyn Cappello, Jean Emmons, Akiko Enokido, Ingrid Finnan, John Gist, Linda Gist, Cherie Ann Gossett, Gillian Harris, Asuka Hishiki, Ann Hoffenberg, Barbara Klaas, Karen Kluglein, Kay Kopper, Katherine Manisco, Dianne McElwain, Joan McGann, Carrie Megan, Regina Milan, Derek Norman, George Olson, Mary Anne O'Malley, Barbara Oozeerally, Hillary Parker, John Pastoriza-Pinol, Linda Petchnick, Lynn Railsback, Betsy Rogers-Knox, Denise Walser-Kolar. Contact: Carol Woodin at e-mail: cjwoodin@me.com, PH: 866.691.9080
Opening October 1, 2009 October 1 – November 15, 2009 - Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO January 16 – April 11, 2010 - Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL May 6 – July 25, 2010 - New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY August 14– December 10, 2010 - National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the WorldThe American Society of Botanical Artists' project of seeking out and documenting the endangered and threatened plants of our time has culminated in this curated traveling exhibition. ASBA members whose artworks are included hail from the US, Australia, Brazil, Israel, Korea, South Africa, and the UK. About half of the plants represented are from North America, the remainder from around the world, including such fascinating plant stories as that of the Wollemi pine from Australia, Erica verticillata from South Africa, and Phragmipedium kovachii from Peru. American plants feature the Midwestern rarity Hymenoxis herbacea, the Everglades "ghost orchid" Polyrrhiza lindenii, a rare poppy from Utah, Arctomecon humilis, and the Santa Cruz cypress, Cupressa abramsiana, all listed as Federally Endangered or Threatened. Dr. Peter Raven authors the introductory essay for the book to accompany the exhibition, and Prof. Sir Peter Crane FRS, John and Marion Sullivan Professor, University of Chicago; Kathryn Kennedy, President of the Center for Plant Conservation; Gary Krupnick, Head of the Plant Conservation Unit at NMNH, and James Miller, Dean and Vice-President for Science, New York Botanical Garden will contribute essays.
October 3, 2009 – January 3, 2010 Legacy Desert Botanical Garden, 1202 North Galvin Parkway, Phoenix, Arizona A Natural Perspective Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 North Central Avenue, Phoenix Arizona These two botanical art shows are held in conjunction with the ASBA Annual Meeting and Conference in Phoenix this October. Legacy: an ASBA exhibition of artists who have received the Diane Bouchier Founder's Award for Excellence in Botanical Art will be held at the Desert Botanical Garden. This show will be the first exhibition that brings together the works of the artists who have received this award. Included will be 28 works by artists Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden, Kate Nessler, Carol Woodin, Martha Kemp, Linda Funk, Katherine Manisco, Jessica Tcherepnine, Lizzie Sanders, Jean Emmons, Dianne McElwain, Barbara Oozeerally, Bobbi Angell, Dick Rauh and Alice Tangerini. A Natural Perspective: an international juried exhibition of the American Society of Botanical Artists will run concurrently at the Phoenix Art Museum. We received more than 150 entries, from which forty were chosen. Jurors included James Ballinger, Director of the Phoenix Art Museum, Wendy Hodgson, Curator of the Herbarium and Research Botanist, Desert Botanical Garden, and Marilyn Garber, Founder of the Minnesota School of Botanical Art and Director of the Desert Botanical Garden Art & Illustration School. Artists whose work was selected include Irene Blecher, Carolyn Cappello, Karen Coleman, Kathy Creger, Debra D'Souza, Jean Emmons, Ingrid Finnan, Nancy Gehrig, Molly Gill, Pria Graves, Debra Greenblatt, Gillian Harris, Elaine Hultgren, Sally Jacobs, Joan Keesey, Heeyoung Kim, Kue-Mie Kim, Karen Kluglein, Jee-Yeon Koo, Kelly Leahy-Radding, Joan McGann, Carrie Megan, Norma Nelson, George Olson, Mary Anne O'Malley, Sharron O'Neil, Rita Parkinson, Linda Petchnick, Margaret Pope, Lynne Railsback, Betsy Rogers-Knox, Connie Sayas, Gilly Shaeffer, Alice Tangerini, and Ann Tompkins. A full-color catalog including the works of both exhibitions is being published with the generous support of the Desert Botanical Garden. It will be available at the Desert Botanical Garden and Phoenix Art Museum gift shops. Contact: Marilyn Garber, e-mail: magarber@skypoint.com June 24 – July 24, 2009
June 24 – July 24, 2009 Holy Thistle and Madonna Lily Nebraska Governor's Residence, Lincoln, NE Native Holy Land plants are the favorite subjects of Irene Blecher's watercolor paintings. About 40 of her artworks will be exhibited at Nebraska Governor's Residence this summer. The plants on display are species of diverse habitats, they represent different seasons, but all of them are plant from the Land of the Bible. Contact: JD Hutton, PH: 402.595.2122, 402.595.2142, e-mail: jayne.hutton@nebraska.gov
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Exhibitions are central to the ASBA's mission. They contribute to our professional development, both as individuals and as a group; they serve as an important educational tool, and they are the way in which we spread the word about botanical art. The ASBA's Exhibitions Coordinator provides assistance, consistency, support, professionalism, and guidance for those who are organizing international, national, regional or local exhibitions. The Exhibitions Coordinator is a part-time position. An ideal exhibition is one developed by participants from any area of the nation. Members identify themselves to the Exhibitions Coordinator as interested in and willing to work on an exhibition in their region. Our goal is to mount three shows annually in diverse regions of the country. The Exhibitions Coordinator will provide the necessary information and support to make your exhibition a success. The ASBA has published a set of Exhibition Guidelines which provide a comprehensive how-to guide for planning and holding an exhibition. We have a great deal of experience in mounting exhibitions, and we all benefit from that experience. If you think you'd like to hold an ASBA exhibition, and you have a venue in mind, the ASBA would like to encourage you. Please look over the Exhibitions Guidelines to learn how to go about it, and contact: Carol Woodin, Exhibitions Coordinator at cjwoodin@me.com or Jean Emmons, Exhibitions Chair at jean.emmons@gte.net.
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