One of my paintings was recently featured in an exhibit and book entitled Gay Gardens by the John B. Aird Gallery. Here’s an excerpt from the curator Patrick DeCoste:
“We solicited submissions from artists with the questions: Can a garden be gay? Can a flower be lesbian? Can a tree be LGBTQ2+? We asked for content such as botany, sexuality, wilderness, gender, flowers, orientation, landscapes, transitions, gardening, the birds and the bees, and other representations …..I was reading Andrea Wulf’s The Brother Gardeners, Botany, Empire, and the Birth of an Obsession which featured Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish scientist who published Systema Naturae in 1735. The book describes his method of naming and classifying plants based on their sexual organs and sexual activities. Society was shocked and embarrassed by the botanical orgies happening in their back yards. …”
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$1200.
The collection of artworks selected for the exhibit are as varied as nature itself! The book is available at http://airdgallery.org/publications/
