Collaborative Art with a Mission
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The Flowers Are Burning
An Art and Climate Justice Virtual Exhibition
+ Collaborative Project by Helen Klebesadel and Mary Kay Neumann "The Flowers are Burning: An Art and Climate Justice Exhibition" seeks to evoke both a sense of alarm at our urgent environmental concerns and to hold up the vision of the possibility of rising from the ashes of a restorative prairie burn.
Artists Mary Kay Neumann and Helen Klebesadedal initiated this collaborative project in 2015. They embrace the potential of the flower as metaphor. Their watercolor paintings explore the poetic, symbolic and political representations that flowers offer in exploring both human nature and the natural world. Recognizing and celebrating the cultural association of flowers with the feminine, they pointedly render their paintings with strong color palettes, rich implied emotional content and complex compositions. Their large expressive flower paintings create environments of saturated color and texture that belies the fragility of flowers. |
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