OPENING RECEPTION:
“GARDEN OF DELIGHTS: BLOOMING”
New transformations, collaborations, and seeds of renewal take form.
Opening Reception: Friday, July 18, 2025 | 5 - 7 PM
Extended Hours: Sat-Sun, July 19-20, 2025 | 11 - 7 PM
Additional Artists: Jeff Blumis, Niki Lederer, Zoe Crozner, Justin Cooper, Tara Foley, Susan Jennings, Kai Navarrete, Daria Irincheeva, Minh Doan.
With the summer’s zenith, Garden of Delights enters its Blooming Stage—a moment of heightened transformation—as the exhibition’s outdoor sculptures, the living garden, and public programs expand into their utmost expression.
This phase marks the pinnacle of the evolving exhibition, as new artists and rotating works are introduced, echoing the ongoing cycles of growth within the garden itself. This includes the exhibition's expansion into the site’s interior galleries, where new paintings, sculptures, and installations will be on display—contrasting the large-scale outdoor artworks and providing an artful respite from the high sun.
Featuring a rich cross-pollination of perspectives and mediums, Garden of Delights blurs the boundaries between aesthetic and function. Interactive sculptures sit alongside mobile garden beds, irrigation systems, fountains, and spaces for both private reflection and communal gathering. This vibrant mix of forms highlights the vital role green spaces play in reimagining urban environments—not only as places of beauty but as essential infrastructure for social, ecological, and emotional well-being.
With each shift in season and installation, the garden transforms, offering new narratives and visual languages that speak to sustainability, renewal, and the re-centering of humanity within the natural world. The exhibition becomes a participatory space, an oasis in the city, where art and ecology grow together in real time.
The Blooming Stage (July - Oct 2025) is not a culmination but a continuation—an open invitation to witness change, engage with place, and imagine a future where the lines between culture and cultivation dissolve into something more resilient, more generous, and deeply rooted in care.