Explore fresh takes on the floral still life with three contemporary artists featured in the new exhibition Wallflowers. Elizabeth Corkery, Azadeh Gholizadeh, and Patricia Iglesias will share the inspirations behind newly commissioned wallpapers, and discuss the botanical themes, symbolism, and material practices that situate the still life and their works within global art and craft traditions.

Led by Frye Executive Director and exhibition curator Jamilee Lacy, this program will illuminate the past and future of one of art history’s most underestimated genres.

About the Panelists

Elizabeth Corkery lives and works in Sydney. Her work borders the ethnographic, addressing the social and political structures of environments’ creators and users. Trained as a printmaker, much of Elizabeth’s practice connects concerns of repetition, reproduction, and simulation with spatial investigations that initiate a slippage between the conventional print media and architectural space. Elizabth holds a BFA from the College of Fine Arts, University of South Wales, a BA from Pennsylvania State University, and an MFA from Cornell.

Azadeh Gholizadeh was born in Tehran, Iran and her work explores the body, landscape, and the fragmentation of memory through an examination of her own emotional connection to a sense of belonging. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Master of Architecture and Urbanism from Iran University of Science & Technology, and a Bachelor of Architecture from the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Shahid Beheshti University.

Patricia Iglesias Peco's practice is tuned into the vibrancy of the natural world, imagining rambunctious gardens of flora and fauna rendered in oil paint. A playful, undulating tension pervades Patricia’s strange compositions, which appear simultaneously grotesque and beautiful. Flowers appear as more than familiar metaphors but vessels for the artist to exercise her formal interest in painting and color theory. Patricia holds a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and the School of Visual Arts.