manzanita, yarrow, nettles, sweet gum and jade  2013 

Susanne Cockrell, Sasha Duerr, Suzanne L’Heureux and Alyssa Pitman 

Interface Gallery, Oakland, California

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Throughout April, Interface Gallery directed by Suzanne L'heureux in Temescal Alley 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 our wonder we partnered with the plants that grow near us in Bay Area, studying their lore, chemistry and color palette.

 

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. 

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