Dark Garden: An Installation by Linda Huey

Ceramic artist Linda Huey transforms an entire gallery into a somber, courtyard-type garden, with more than 40 dark and beautiful but dysfunctional plant forms constructed from manufactured steel, rusted rebar metal, clay, and debris. Huey’s plants, seed pods, leaves, and flowers suggest beauty and fragility. But a closer look reveals mounds of earth that are really fossilized trash and computer parts, flowers with graffiti, black fairies, decayed gnomes, and broken antennas. Huey’s concern for the natural environment is apparent as she explores dualities: life versus decay, nature versus culture, organic versus man-made.