Curatorial

Curated by Robin MacDonald-Foley, In the Presence of Trees personalizes a journey into our relationships with trees through the artists’ visions. The collaboration connects individual perspectives through painting, mixed media, photography, sculpture, and performance, in recreated, real, and imagined tree forms.

Exhibitions were held at Cambridge Art Association, spring 2022, and the Munroe Center for the Arts, fall 2023.

 

Trees from the beginning:   https://robinjmf.com/2022/09/when-trees-cry/ 

In the Presence of Trees
Cambridge Art Association
Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, Mass.
April 21 – May 21, 2022

Performance & Curatorial Talk.  l-r: Jane Sherrill, C.J. Lori, Robin MacDonald-Foley, Jessi Stegall, Ilya Vidrin, Beverly Rippel

Trees Installation, C.J.

Trees installation, l-r, Beverly, C.J.

Trees Installation, l-r, Robin, Beverly

Trees Installation, Jane

Trees Installation, Beverly

Filming the dance with Jessi, & Ilya

Artists Talks & Dance-Reception

Artists Talks & Dance-Reception

Artists Talks & Dance-Reception

Closing Reception

The Artists-Closing Reception

Trees Closing

Choreography by Jessi Stegall. Performed by Ilya Vidrin and Jessi Stegall. Filmed by Sue Murad. Produced by Stone Sky Studio and Cambridge Art Association. Visual art by Beverly Rippel, C.J. Lori, Jane Sherrill, Robin MacDonald-Foley.

Bridging together these art forms through modern sculptural-like movements, Stegall and Vidrin personify the life of trees, opening our senses to new ways of seeing and feeling art, as it unfolds in present time.

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In the Presence of Trees II
Munroe Center for the Arts
Lexington, Mass.
September 5 – October 27, 2023

https://www.munroecenter.org/archive-in-the-gallery.htm

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