Exhibition Dates: Jan. 9–Feb. 27 | 1–6 p.m. Wednesday and Friday Artist: Kristy Deetz
The Lincoln Center Art Gallery’s new exhibit Kristy Deetz: Disrupted Gardens features a series of hyper-realistic acrylic paintings that imagine a future where nature and artificial intelligence respond to pollution and climate change by reshaping the Earth (our “Garden”) and populating it with new, often evolving creatures. Kristy calls these creatures Specimens and first creates them as small sculptures made from beeswax, pigments, and found materials. She photographs the Specimens outdoors and refines the images digitally to use as the basis for each of her detailed paintings.
The Specimen sculptures are quick, experimental studies of a transformed world, the paintings are slow, carefully crafted illusions. Together, they suggest a future full of humor, darkness, and hope. The work invites viewers to consider how life might adapt, what role humans may play, and how creativity can spark new ways of thinking about our environment.
Art Gallery
The Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia, Fort Collins, CO, 80521, View Map
417 W. Magnolia , Fort Collins, CO 80521
Free