Flower Power; Sande Webster Celebrates Beauty in Nature This Summer.
Philadelphia Weekly › August 05, 2009
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In a show called "The Garden Is Art/Art of the Garden," the gallery has organized prints, photographs, paintings and sculpture on Edenic themes. In another move that gives your nose an unexpected treat, [Webster] brought in real flowers and plants--thick mini-gardens of black-eyed susans, ferns, lilies, small shrubs, lavender, grasses, arbor vitae and miscellaneous posies and tendrils in arrangements designed by John Baliski. The flora happily complements the art and doesn't compete.
Work in the large outer corridor, mostly photography, hints at nature's darker themes--decay and death. There's a black-and-white photo by Andrea Baldeck (Dandelion #1) that signals the end of a flower's life, and Joanne Watkeys' photograph Cradle highlights solitary moments in a plant's life cycle--like when there's just one berry left on the vine. Photographers Ron Tarver, Arlene Love and Michael Froio add weight with painterly photographs of trees, the woods and other natural pleasures.See the full content of this document
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Flower Power; Sande Webster Celebrates Beauty in Nature This Summer.
Every summer in recent memory gallerist Sande Webster has organized a provocative show dealing with contemporary issues. One summer the show's theme was black and whit...
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