Sphinxes, mermaids, roses and tomatoes, the practice of combining species goes back to the ancient world and can be seen in Wave Hill’s lush gardens filled with hybridized plants. This exhibit explores the fascination with hybrids from mythological, biological and technological perspectives. Hybrids can exist in the fertile realm of human imagination and myth where they assume features from multiple sources, with unlimited opportunity to draw on the most desirable characteristics. Hybrids can be created by manipulating and tinkering with nature to advance human existence. The artists here take open-ended and humanistic approaches to looking at how hybrids are part of our psyche and our physical world.

Principal funding for the Visual Arts at Wave Hill is provided by the Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Charitable Trust. Sustaining support for Wave Hill is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Thank you to the artists for creating and lending their artwork and to Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN; B.

ill Maynes Gallery; Mixed Greens and Zabriskie Gallery, all of New York, NY, and the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY.