manzanita, yarrow, nettles, sweet gum and jade 2013
Susanne Cockrell, Sasha Duerr, Suzanne L’Heureux and Alyssa Pitman
Interface Gallery, Oakland, California
Throughout April, Interface Gallery became a studio/laboratory/workshop space for exploring and visualizing the invisible qualities of medicinal plants familiar to the Bay Area - stimulating the senses and inspiring wonder at the rich possibilities that the plants around us offer.
In this ongoing, process-oriented exhibition, artists Susanne Cockrell, Sasha Duerr, Alyssa Pitman and Suzanne L'Heureux will collaboratively represent their research and experimentation with specific local plants. Additionally, they will convene in the gallery each Thursday, from 4-6 pm, to engage in new explorations and visualize their discoveries. These "Thursday Sessions" will include activities such as tasting kefir waters infused with new medicinal plants each week, and helping brew natural dyes, made with medicinal plants found in the surrounding Temescal neighborhood.
process: making nettle prints and manzanita bark cones
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