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April 2-8, 2023 WhAt's up! 9 Cajsa von Zeipel, "Pack Nap," 2019. Mixed media and silicone. (Courtesy image/21c) bit to reflect changing perceptions, knowledge, and conditions; we 'copy/morph,' not 'copy/paste,' so each iteration of an exhibition is different, making it worthwhile for any visitors who have seen a show in another location to experience it again." "The Garden" was previously shown at 21c Louisville in 2021-22, Art Basel Miami in 2019, and PPOW gallery in New York City in 2016, among other institutions, Munson says. Munson says her art practice started with painting at a young age. "My ah-ha moment came when I was in elementary school," she says. "I struggled with dyslexia, [and] in art class I was inspired by an amazing art teacher. I remember thinking, 'I'm an artist, and this is what I'm going to do.' For me, I had found what I love to do and a perfect way to express myself. "Probably from fifth grade on, I took Saturday painting classes and attended an art high school and would also go to the Arts Students League in New York City — often followed by dancing at Studio 54! Now, I work in a variety of mediums including sculpture, installation, photography, painting and drawing, working from an environmentalist and feminist perspective." As for "The Garden," Munson says it started "living in Provincetown, Mass. I collected many of the objects from a Swap Shop — a free thrift store — at the local dump, and the piece has been added to and evolving ever since." "'The Garden' is completely made of detritus and found, used objects," Munson says. "In this piece, I am thinking about manufactured ideas of beauty and nature, and how we deal with death, procreation and life. The mass collection of fake flowers are both funerary and represent the sexual reproduction of natural life. 'The Garden' studies how nature Fyi 'Still, Life! Mourning, Meaning, Mending' Featured artists also include Valerie Hegarty, Nate Lewis, Zak Ové, Hamra Abbas, Cosmo Whyte, Whitfield Lovell, Omar Victor Diop, Cajsa von Zeipel, Kajahl, Robin The Kid, Markeith Woods and others. Valerie Hegarty, "Fresh Start" (from the series "the Covid Diary"), 2021 (detail), canvas, wood, epoxy resin, papier- mâché, armature wire. (Courtesy image/21c) "Each surface in 'The Garden' is meticulously decorated with floral mementos, souvenirs and fake flowers, and the installation process feels very meditative — almost how a little girl might arrange relics in her bedroom," artist portia Munson says. "'the Garden' proposes that disrespect for the environment runs parallel to disregard for women, inviting viewers to meditate on the irony of manufacturing a regressive notion of beauty while simultaneously annihilating our natural world." (Courtesy image/21c) is reproduced into plastic and altered by commercialization." "I believe that art can drive and shape change in the world, and that artists are 'first responders' to what is happening all around us," Stites concludes. "Artists are essential for envisioning progress, and I want to support their voices and visions."