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Opening Reception for “Plant Life” at Floyd Memorial Library
July 26, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Floyd Memorial Library is delighted to announce its next art exhibition Plant Life, which opens with a reception on Friday, July 26, 6-8 p.m.
Plant Life creates a story of exterior vegetation infiltrating the library and growing inside our gallery space. To that end, six artists/community groups are making site-specific works that appear to have entered through the gallery’s windows. The six window installations are as follows:
1) Nancy DePas Reinertsen and the North Fork Chapter of ReWild Long Island are combining dried and growing plants to create a work that considers the tussle between natives and invasive species
2) Chenae Bullock, an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and descendant of the Montauk Tribe, shares her knowledge of plants significant to Long Island Native Americans
3) Artists Agathe Snow and Anthony Holbrooke of Mattituck Mushrooms are making an installation focusing on the world of fungi
4) Fiber artist Sherry Davis is combining discarded upholstery selvage with plant roots and vines to create an assemblage that explores transformation and the notion of human-plant hybrids
5) Focusing on sea plants, the work by South Fork artist Scott Bluedorn will consist, in part, of a stained-glass window made of dried kelp and other seaweeds
6) North Fork artist and farmer Peter Trieber Jr. is making an installation exploring edible plants and the farm fields of the East End
These site-specific pieces will be accompanied by other artworks—including paintings, photographs, sculpture, monotypes and collages—that consider the dualist relationship between the natural environment and human culture. Other participating artists include Carol Bouyoucos, Melissa Gabrielsen, Karine Laval, Virginia Cava, Thomas Halaczinsky, Nancy Muller, Andrea Cote, Brianna L. Hernández, Hilary North, Jeremy Dennis, Rochelle Kyrk, Bri Sander & Marjorie Eagan.
Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, July 26, 6-8 p.m. Plant Life will be on display until 5 p.m. on September 8.
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