On View
Current exhibition:
Elder Flowers
Photographs by j.maya luz
September 21 - December 21 Opening Reception: September 21, 2-4pm
J. Maya Luz works in photography and other media. Her art brings together the intertwined aspects of urban life and awareness of her inner life.
Elder Flowers are prints of flowers past their prime. These striking images of plants in stages of decomposition as visualization of maturity, wisdom, mortality and renewal. The images draw on 19th century photography and the older traditions of botanical illustration. And, they are contemporary in approach at the same time.
Gardens are about constancy and cycles. The plants within make for a changing palette of color and textures. As greenery and colorful petals five way to softer golds and browns, and starker shapes, we can observe a different beauty of the natural world.
Past exhibitions:
Sarang-Bang, an installation by Eun Young Choi
On view through September 14th 2025. Closing reception Sunday, September 14, 2-4pm
Visual Artist EunYoung Choi created a new artwork onsite. Through June she invited visitors to share family and community stories and contribute to the installation. The completed artwork remains on view through August.
Sarang-band’s literal translation from Korean, Sarang-bang [사랑방] is a space in a traditional Korean house where the owner welcomes guests, enjoys hobbies, and socializes. Sarang-bang literally translates to “Love Room” and is a formal yet intimate room similar to a Victorian parlor where guests are entertained. It’s a space to gather, share stories, and have debates.
Similar to parlor’s etymology meaning a "room for speaking,” based on the Old French "parleor" or “parloir,” I hope to create a “Sarang-bang” at the Voelker Orth Museum for the community to come together and share their stories.
The exhibition is curated by Hyewon Yi, art historian, the director and curator of the Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at SUNY Old Westbury. This project is a recipient of a recipient of a 2025 NYFA Queens Fellowship award.
Everything for the Garden
Transfer Drawings by Kevin Duggan
On view through Dec. 15, 2024
Artist's Closing Reception: December 15, 2-4pm
In the 19th-century, seed merchants produced lavishly illustrated catalogs that were mailed in the hundreds of thousands to middle class Americans, especially women. It was a pioneering form of direct marketing that helped define what gardens looked like and which flowers grew in them.
Drawing on colorful, chromolithographed images and inspirational texts from these Victorian-era seed catalogs and ephemera, Everything for the Garden! by artist Kevin Duggan explores how these vivid portrayals of flowers and gardens fired customers’ imaginations and promoted flower gardening as a source of spiritual uplift, civic virtue, and personal reward.
Kevin Duggan is an artist based in New York City whose work draws on natural science and botanical art of the past informed by contemporary art practices.