Dark Garden: An Installation by Linda Huey

With over 40 dark and beautiful but dysfunctional plant forms, ceramic artist Linda Huey transforms an entire gallery into a somber, courtyard-type garden. This is no ordinary garden. Imagine plant forms, seed pods, leaves, flowers—all constructed from manufactured steel, rusted rebar metal, clay, and debris. Huey’s plants have a suggestion of beauty and fragility, but look closer and see mounds of earth that are really fossilized trash and computer parts, flowers with graffiti, black fairies,… Show more decayed gnomes, broken antennas, leaves infested with cars. Her garden grows with compelling dualities: life versus decay, nature versus culture, organic versus man-made. Huey’s concern for the natural environment is apparent as she explores problematic aspects of culture through her sculptures. Her exhibition asks the question—Can sculpture make a difference and change the values of society?

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