Fooling Linnaeus — Michele Fletcher

The exhibition situates itself within a broader lineage of abstraction, one in which artists engage with nature as a source of rhythm, force, and energy. Fletcher cites connection with traditions spanning from the atmospheric luminosity of JMW Turner and James McNeil Whistler to the visionary, organic compositions of Hilma af Klint and the expressive gestures of Joan Mitchell. For Fletcher, the studio itself becomes akin to a site of cultivation, where control is bound by unpredictability, and where forms emerge through a balance of intention and fortuity.