Blossom Return
Curated by Susan Jennings
June 25- July 25, 2021
Featured ARTISTS : Kwadwo Adae, Betsy Friedman, Sara Jessie Kane, Slink Moss, Katy Schneider, Laura Stein, Rachel Urkowitz and Guy Walker
“Blossom Return,” organized by the artist Susan Jennings at Artport Kingston is an exhibition engaging with the fact that many of us who were fortunate enough to have had access, leaned into nature and gardens during quarantine. While the world shuttered, last summer’s bloom was particularly poignant as something consistent, healthy and healing amidst so much that was not. Nature took no pause in her march of creation. This summer the blossom return greets us both as it always has and also entirely anew. We have been changed by what we just collectively endured and lived in ways we yet to fully understand. For these 8 artist, the practice of blossom as muse delivers for us a powerful reminder that nature and her cycles are not part of “our environment” but are rather the driving forces of an interplaying relationship, along with us, at one with our very being.
