During the monochromatic season of winter in the Northeast, it can be difficult to imagine the hues and tones of nature when most plant life lies dormant beneath the ground. In this exhibition, we invite you to look beyond this moment of visual restraint and consider growth as an ongoing, layered process—one that persists even when unseen.

Working across painting and ceramics, the artists in this exhibition render nature through a contemporary lens, treating plant forms not as passive scenery but as active carriers of meaning and experience. Color becomes both subject and strategy: expressive, unnatural, intuitive, and symbolic. 

Together, the works in The Color of Growth reimagine plant life and landscape as sites of transformation. They remind us that growth is rarely linear or benign—it is tangled, contested, and deeply colored by the conditions of the worlds we inhabit.