Events

Andrea Baldeck Photo Exhibit - "The Texture of Trees"

Featuring the work of artist Andrea Baldeck. Close up, at arm's length, and in a panoramic sweep of landscape, trees provide vital richness and texture in our lives. Bark and branch, bud and blossom, foliage and fruit speak to the eye of growth and change, renewal and decline. Scaffolds of our ecosystem, sentinels of the botanical world, trees shape the space around us, temper the air we breathe, attune us to the seasons, and chronicle history in their tissue. Mute but eloquent, they speak through the photographic images of this exhibit in all their arboreal accents. The exhibit is free with regular admission.

Artist-In-Residence: Patrick Dougherty



This spring, Dougherty will create a unique, abstract sculpture during a three-week on-site residency. Working with volunteers and staff, Dougherty will weave hundreds of sticks and saplings into a whimsical site-specific creation along the banks of the Wissahickon Creek in the Arboretum’s Butcher Sculpture Garden.

Dougherty arrives at the site of each new installation with no preconceptions as to what he will create. Instead, using locally gathered natural materials, he draws inspiration from the surrounding environment to design a large-scale structure that when completed, may remind visitors of a nest, cocoon or even a fairy tale dwelling. Each of his sculptures is designed and executed without the use of nails or other supportive hardware, and the result is a creation that may resemble something artful that was shaped by a powerful wind that swept across the landscape. At the conclusion of his Morris Arboretum residency, Dougherty will name his creation and leave the Arboretum with a distinctive architectural element that will remain in place as long as it lasts in the natural environment.

You can also learn more about Patrick Dougherty and view his work at www.stickwork.net.


 

All of these picture are examples of other installations created by Patrick Dougherty.