In Pondering the Marvelous, on view in Wave Hill’s Glyndor Gallery, September 5 -
November 28, Emilie Clark, Karla Knight and Eva Lee explore the complexity of scale and perception in nature in comprehensive groups of drawings or paintings on paper. Karla Knight’s Super Eye Vision paintings on ledger paper are of surrealistic life forms that appear to evolve, grow and mutate from page to page. Eva Lee’s ink drawings could be describing expansive galaxies or atomic structures. In Letters to Mary Ward, a series of watercolor paintings and letters, Emilie Clark exchanges her observations on nature with a 19th century natural historian. A sense of wonder and curiosity threads through each one’s approach to recording ideas, experiences and observations. Scientific sources inspire, but ultimately each work springs from the artist’s imagination to tease and hint at the marvelous expanse of the natural world.

Principal funding for the Visual Arts Program is provided by Stephen and Cathy Weinroth and the Greenwall Foundation. 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 Michael Steinberg Fine Art.

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