Tree News Issue 4

This weekend, Sept 9 + 10, marks the release of issue 4 of Tree News produced by Erin Mallea and Paper Buck at the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair. I had the immense pleasure of speaking with Erin about A Tree Grows in Queens, herbaria, and working with archives. The issue also includes an interview with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History Curator of Botany, Mason Heberling. They’ll be tabling at the Carnegie Museum of Art and will have copies of The Dry Garden as well as a special edition postcard set of images from A Tree Grows in Queens.

A Tree, A Garden at Antenna

My solo show, A Tree, A Garden, opens in New Orleans at Antenna on February 11, 2023. The show will be on view until March 26th. A corresponding publication, The Dry Garden, is available from Antenna Press.

A Tree, A Garden reflects on the many ways in which trees manifest into other things, from memorials and myths to memes, markers, and meeting points.The exhibition brings together two research projects that explore the place of trees in our understanding of the world. Inspired by trees found both in old-growth forests and on city streets, A Tree Grows in Queens incorporates a collection of written vignettes, archival images, and original photographs to explore how narratives of trees have touched on the larger topics of climate, capitalism, catastrophe, and compassion. The Dry Garden, an installation of cyanotype prints and a publication, is composed of reimagined archival material from herbaria, where plants are dried and stored for scientific purposes. The imagery transformed into shades of blue and white is influenced by Anna Atkins’ Photographs of British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions, the first book of photographs ever published. The work reconsiders archival histories and explores how narrative can act as a riposte to plant blindness, encouraging more empathetic relationships with our natural surroundings.

SF Art Book Fair 7/15-7/17

It seems surreal to say but The Moon & Stars Can e Yours will have it’s official debut this weekend at the San Francisco Art Book Fair! It is taking place from Friday the 15th to Sunday the 17th at Minnesota Street Project with a preview on Thursday night! Moon & Stars will be available at the Conveyor Editions table and as always is available for purchase through their site.

Said To Be Dreaming at Olympia

A group exhibition on reading poems and images - featuring paintings, video, mail art, and sound. The show explores how the acts of reading and looking are themselves an art of daydreaming and meandering. The exhibition is curated by Chantal Soong Lee and Emily P. Dunne. The exhibition asks, what does a conversation between a poet and an artist, or between two visual artists, look like? http://olympiart.org/

NARS Virtual Benefit

Happy to have donated this image, Winter Afternoon, to the NARS virtual benefit. I was an artist in residence there in 2015 and so much came out of it, projects that stayed with me for years, friendships, connections, and colleagues. The auction runs til May 29th. More info here : https://www.narsfoundation.org/2022-benefit/magali-duzant-winter-afternoon