Amy Helfand: Modern Nature
April 29 - July 30, 2006
New York artist Amy Helfand creates collages and textiles based on garden imagery. Modern Nature showcases the artist's prints, fabrics, and carpets, all inspired by the riotous Wild Garden at Wave Hill, the famed public garden in the Bronx. In her exuberant designs, Helfand juxtaposes the organic and manmade, nature and culture, fantasy and reality. The results are imagined wonderlands comprising site plans and unrecognizable yet distinctly biomorphic forms. In a commission expressly for the Frye, Helfand is designing fabric for one of the Museum's trademark gossip chairs.
Amy Helfand: Modern Nature is organized by Chief Curator Robin Held as part of an exhibition cycle exploring contemporary approaches to landscape.
Amy Helfand. Plants of vigorous habit for the Wild Garden, 2004. 11.5 x 18 inches. Archival giclée print. Courtesy of the artist.
Amy Helfand. Plants for Hedge-banks and like Places, 2004. 7.5 x 10.5 inches, edition 3 of 8. Archival giclée print. Courtesy of the artist.