The Lincoln Center Art Gallery’s new exhibit Kristy Deetz: Disrupted Gardens opens January 9 and will be on view through February 27. Disrupted Gardens is a series of hyper-realistic acrylic paintings that imagine a future where nature and artificial intelligence respond to pollution and climate change by reshaping the Earth (our “Garden”) and populating it with new, often evolving creatures. Kristy calls these creatures Specimens and first creates them as small sculptures made from beeswax, pigments, and found materials. She photographs the Specimens outdoors and refines the images digitally to use as the basis for each of her detailed paintings.
The Specimen sculptures are quick, experimental studies of a transformed world, the paintings are slow, carefully crafted illusions. Together, they suggest a future full of humor, darkness and hope. The work invites viewers to consider how life might adapt, what role humans may play and how creativity can spark new ways of thinking about our environment.
Kristy Deetz will be visiting The Lincoln Center Art Gallery from Green Bay, Wisconsin. She will live sculpt in the Art Gallery, demonstrating how she creates her Specimens.
Visitors are invited to observe her creative process during live sculpting sessions on January 15 from 1–6 p.m. and January 16 from 3–5 p.m. An Artist Talk and Reception will follow on January 16 at 5:30 p.m., open to the public. The exhibit opens January 9 and will be on view through February 27.
The Lincoln Center Art Gallery is open to the public from 1 to 6 p.m. Wednesday and Friday and before most performances.