Texas Discovery Gardens

Echoes of Remembered Gardens, by Susan Lecky, livens up our winter landscape with vibrant, geometric patterns and colors. Working with both acrylic on canvas and colored pencil on paper, Lecky hints at natural patterns and botanic prints.

An 84" by 81" six panel piece, Forgotten-Remembered, Then, Now, Forever, greets visitors as they walk in the two story lobby, with smaller works on canvas and paper in the Discovery Gallery. The exhibition kicks off Texas Discovery Gardens’ Come to the Tropics event Jan. 28, 2012 and will brighten our lobby through April 29, 2012.

Echoes of Remembered Gardens is curated by Janet Reynolds.

Details

Opening Reception: Friday, January 27, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Free admission for visitors attending the reception.
Runs: Jan. 27, 2012 through April 29, 2012. Texas Discovery Gardens admission applies. $8/adults, $6/ages 60+, and $4/ages 3 to 11. Free for members or on Tuesdays (butterfly house admission regular price).

Artist Statement

"I am intrigued with the random and fixed patterning found in nature and how the intrusion of human-made forms interacts with these patterns.

I have personalized the natural forms in these paintings so that they hint at something real, but are not. Therefore the viewers, with their own background of visual experiences, will be sparked to associate memories and feelings with these shapes that are meaningful to them. The geometric divisions become architectonic forces that push back and then forward on or amongst the patterned surface of the canvas. Thus a delicate interrelationship is established between the structured and organic elements which I hope will cause a dialogue between myself and the viewers -- I present, through form and color, my feeling about man and nature, and the viewers are stimulated to bring, due to their own sensibilities, additional interpretations to these relationships.

I first investigated these ideas on a single panel format and expanded this search using triptych and six panel formats. The relationships between the forms are explored in the central panel and the two side or top and bottom panels - the center being micro - the sides or tops and bottoms being enlargements of the central forms - becoming macro.

These paintings are the result of this continuing investigation -- everything is here, one can only see so much, what do we see, what do we feel?"

--Susan Lecky