Interior Aperture Flowers
Interior Aperture Flowers is a wallpaper design based based on a painting titled Small Aperture Flowers (magenta), 2023. The wallpaper was commissioned for the exhibition, Wallflowers at the Frye Museum, Seattle.
Wallflowers is a dialogue across time centered on one of art history’s most underestimated genres: the floral still life. Bringing together eleven paintings from the Frye’s collection with newly commissioned wallpaper designs from eleven contemporary artists, the exhibition explores how artists from the nineteenth century to the present have turned to floral imagery as fertile ground for experimentation and reinvention.
The floral still life genre has proven remarkably durable, capable of holding centuries’ worth of ideas about beauty, impermanence, social class, and the shifting relationship between art and craft. Today, contemporary artists continue to redeploy the floral as both image and symbol: an unassuming bouquet is actually neither quaint nor static, but full of cultural memory, and a site for subversive social critique.
Structured to mimic the delights of navigating a cultivated garden, Wallflowers oscillates between discrete paintings and immersive patterns, between contemplation and exuberance. The selected works tell a broader story of industrialization, design, and modernism’s ongoing flirtation with the decorative, and celebrate the ability of artists to invest familiar forms with fresh meaning.
- Frye Museum Exhibition text
Collection artists:
Sergei Bongart
Soren Emil Carlsen
Jae Carmichael
Leon Derbyshire
Nicolai Ivanovich Fechin
John Marshall Gamble
Del Gish
Grigory Gluckmann
Margie H. Griffin
Alfred Henry Maurer
Richard Alan Schmid
Commissioned wallpaper artists:
Jite Agbro
Polly Apfelbaum
Nick Cave with Bob Faust
Elizabeth Corkery
Azadeh Gholizadeh
Patricia Iglesias Peco
Greg Ito
Koak
Graham McDougal
Natani Notah
Wallflowers is organized by Jamilee Lacy, Executive Director, Frye Museum with contributing artist Elizabeth Corkery.
Interior Aperture Flowers is a wallpaper design based based on a painting titled Small Aperture Flowers (magenta), 2023. The wallpaper was commissioned for the exhibition, Wallflowers at the Frye Museum, Seattle.
Wallflowers is a dialogue across time centered on one of art history’s most underestimated genres: the floral still life. Bringing together eleven paintings from the Frye’s collection with newly commissioned wallpaper designs from eleven contemporary artists, the exhibition explores how artists from the nineteenth century to the present have turned to floral imagery as fertile ground for experimentation and reinvention.
The floral still life genre has proven remarkably durable, capable of holding centuries’ worth of ideas about beauty, impermanence, social class, and the shifting relationship between art and craft. Today, contemporary artists continue to redeploy the floral as both image and symbol: an unassuming bouquet is actually neither quaint nor static, but full of cultural memory, and a site for subversive social critique.
Structured to mimic the delights of navigating a cultivated garden, Wallflowers oscillates between discrete paintings and immersive patterns, between contemplation and exuberance. The selected works tell a broader story of industrialization, design, and modernism’s ongoing flirtation with the decorative, and celebrate the ability of artists to invest familiar forms with fresh meaning.
- Frye Museum Exhibition text
Collection artists:
Sergei Bongart
Soren Emil Carlsen
Jae Carmichael
Leon Derbyshire
Nicolai Ivanovich Fechin
John Marshall Gamble
Del Gish
Grigory Gluckmann
Margie H. Griffin
Alfred Henry Maurer
Richard Alan Schmid
Commissioned wallpaper artists:
Jite Agbro
Polly Apfelbaum
Nick Cave with Bob Faust
Elizabeth Corkery
Azadeh Gholizadeh
Patricia Iglesias Peco
Greg Ito
Koak
Graham McDougal
Natani Notah
Wallflowers is organized by Jamilee Lacy, Executive Director, Frye Museum with contributing artist Elizabeth Corkery.
