PARADISE FOUND Exhibition
The Art of Carol Bouyoucos
On view: October 20th – 30th Gallery hours: 2:00 – 6:00 pm
Mondays & Tuesdays, by appointment
Venue: Gallery Arte Azulejo 154 Orchard St, New York City
Opening Reception:
Friday, July 21st, 2022 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Carol Greenan Bouyoucos’ work embodies not a fall from grace, as in Milton’s, “Paradise Lost,” but a paradise found in a time of personal change and reflection, and nature as muse, no fruit forbidden.
Bouyoucos creates immersive photomontages, layering turn-of-the-century images with her lush digital representations of the natural world. With a poet’s eye, mines her own travels as well as historic images and photographs to create environments that are both actual and fantastical. From hyper-real flowers to tropical trees dripping with moss, her montages entice viewers to linger.
“I am inspired by early American and European landscape, and botanical art, as works by Thomas Cole, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Robert John Thornton illustrate. Weaving historical imagery into the narrative embeds a feeling of nostalgia for nature, whereas working within a digital platform suggests that there is a changing truth to the environmental story. My practice has always been shaped by technology. I embrace the aesthetic tension that digital materiality imposes on the work to redefine it and offer new questions about it. Environmental and social borderlines are conflicted today, but history has taught us that contemplating nature can compel humanity to work toward change.
Events:
LES* Gallery Night : Thursday October 20th, 4 pm – 8 pm (*Lower East Side)
Opening Reception: Friday October 21st, 4pm – 9pm Public & Private Tours: Dates TBD
Closing: Sunday, October 30th, 6 pm
About See|Me:
See|Me is a socially conscious startup that was founded with the intent of serving an international community of artists and bringing visibility to their work via open calls, exhibitions, events, partnerships, and select economic opportunities. Our digital gallery and open calls, and exhibitions at Art Fairs and galleries in NYC, Miami, and beyond, showcase talented artists to thousands of gallerists, collectors, and purchasers each month. Exhibition themes are chosen to address current and meaningful topics and also to offer open-ended interpretations toward accessibility for a wide array of artists.
