Leslie Grant, Media Arts; Janet Lobberecht, Foundation Studies; Gudrun Lock, Foundation Studies; Kathryn Savage, Liberal Arts; Elisabet h Workman, Liberal Arts
“Florilegium” comes from the Latin flor (flower) + legere (gather), cousin to the Greek anthology—anthos (flower) + logia (a collection). Before the florilegium as a form came to be a botanical compendium (circa 1590), it was a sacred reading practice bringing together distinct writings to explore resonances between the ostensibly disparate. “Florilegium” as a mode of inquiry celebrates the in-between in time and place and form. “Shoreham Yards Florilegium” is an inquiry into ecology and tr ansitory places and states of mind, bringing together art, performance, and literary works by Leslie Grant, Janet Lobberecht, Gudrun Lock, Kathryn Savage, and Elisabeth Workman who will each explore the in-between, the fleeting and renewing, through the distinct lenses of their practices. The gallery will include visual art works by Grant, Lobberecht, Lock, and Workman. Select participating artists will read original prose and poetry and discuss their work together at a public panel in conjunction with the exhibition moderated by Kathryn Savage.