Naomi Reis “Borrowed Landscapes”
The Horticultural Society of New York
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The Hort presents an installation by Brooklyn-based artist Naomi Reis, whose work explores nature and its representation. To create her mixed-media collages, which are based on photographs taken in tropical greenhouses, Reis layers painted and cut forms to create an image as dense and colorful as the plant life depicted. Her process, which reduces the foliage to solid forms and colors, emphasizes the fabricated and illusionistic aspect of her subject matter. As lush and realistic as these environments are, they are simulated representations of a naturally occurring tropical landscape: carefully maintained parallel spaces where the effects of weather, chaos, and survival of the fittest are suspended.
Reis was born in Shiga, Japan, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is a co-founder of TSA, an artist-run gallery in Bushwick. She was a 2013 Winter Workspace resident at Wave Hill; an article about her experience appears in the Spring 2013 issue of Wilder Quarterly.
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from August 07, 2013 to September 13, 2013