11-01-2024
August Henry: Sprout
Frond, Frond, Lily, Pod
22"x22", Oil on Canvas
Join us for Sprout, an exhibition by artist August Henry, running from November 7, 2024 - January 3, 2025 in the FXCollaborative Gallery. Viewing by appointment only. Please call 212-627-1700.
Doro, Himawari, Umi, Mori
Sprout permeates FXCollaborative with abundant flora, overgrowing in the modern space like plants in the cracks of New York's sidewalks. Sprout is a visual dissertation on the science of plants found throughout New York City's tree pits and parks. A collection of oil and gouache paintings, furniture, scientific displays, essays, and plushies through the lens of 1950-70's monster films create a world of botanical behemoths besieging urban spaces.
August Henry is a painter and installation artist. Their botany focused makings are historically, scientifically, and culturally research-driven to produce layered works for the spaces they inhabit. Juxtaposing constrained manmade aesthetics with the infinity of wild vegetation, the images infiltrate urban spaces with natural aesthetics. Verdant imagery becomes a holistic experience - the spiritual effect of nature. The delicate leaves loosely fall into, onto, and over each other guiding the eye of the viewer deeper into the wilderness.
Taro
48"x48", Oil on Canvas
Yoshino 8
16"x20", Oil on Canvas
Doro, Himawari, Umi, MoriSprout permeates FXCollaborative with abundant flora, overgrowing in the modern space like plants in the cracks of New York's sidewalks. Sprout is a visual dissertation on the science of plants found throughout New York City's tree pits and parks. A collection of oil and gouache paintings, furniture, scientific displays, essays, and plushies through the lens of 1950-70's monster films create a world of botanical behemoths besieging urban spaces.
August Henry is a painter and installation artist. Their botany focused makings are historically, scientifically, and culturally research-driven to produce layered works for the spaces they inhabit. Juxtaposing constrained manmade aesthetics with the infinity of wild vegetation, the images infiltrate urban spaces with natural aesthetics. Verdant imagery becomes a holistic experience - the spiritual effect of nature. The delicate leaves loosely fall into, onto, and over each other guiding the eye of the viewer deeper into the wilderness.
Taro48"x48", Oil on Canvas
Yoshino 816"x20", Oil on Canvas