July 22, 2011 through November 6, 2011
The Legard and United Company Galleries
Prevue Reception: Thursday, July 21
Members & Friends, 5-6 pm, Public 6-8 pm
About the Exhibition
Virginia based painter Rob Vander Zee creates enchanted, fantastic worlds brimming with imagined plant life and mutant creatures. This ongoing series “Visions of Paradise” evolved from earlier explorations of the landscape and figure, and was initially inspired by his travels in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands in 2009. Vander Zee’s strange and beautiful flora and fauna reflect his interest in the future evolution of life forms. These works are parables for how science is reshaping life on earth, or as the critic Jonathan Goodman describes them, “scenes of a postnuclear landscape in which almost anything can happen.”
