Lettuce Lake (detail) SECRETS IN PLACE at Tayloe Piggott Gallery Dec 14 – Feb 4, 2024

Waves (detail) RECONNECTIONS – IN KINSHIP WITH NATURE United Nations Headquarters Nov 30 – Jan 15, 2024

RECONNETIONS – IN KINSHIP WITH NATURE
Nov 30 – Jan 15, 2024
United Nations Headquarters
United Nations Exhibition Space
405 East 45th Street
New York, NY

Visitors have to check in at the Visitors Center at 1st Avenue and East 45th Street and pass through a security check before entering building.

Re-Connections: In Kinship With Nature blends artistic expression with environmental activism. The artists address the urgent need to live more responsibly within the Earth’s finite resources. Witness to floods, rising waters and other man-made threats, they imagine a future where we live in harmony with nature and feel an obligation to work together to take action and reverse this trend.

SECRETS IN PLACE
Dec 14 – Feb 4, 2024
Tayloe Pigott Gallery
Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Secrets in Place, Ayhens’s first exhibition at Tayloe Piggott Gallery, presents a selection of oil paintings and ink and watercolor works from the mid-1990s to the present. For the past forty years, Ayhens has focused much of her practice on the creation of environmental allegories, each as whimsical as they are catastrophic, which fuse antithetical and imaginary worlds into “jumbled panoramas,” according to Hyperallergic’s Stephen Maine. Her inventive contemporary landscapes amalgamate nature and man-made environments, creating implausible realms of juxtaposed skyscrapers perched on cliffsides…

More about Olive Ayhens HERE