Opening Reception\/Meet the Artist:
Saturday, April 11, 5pm to 8pm<\/p>\n
Gallery Talk with June Bunch + Live Music:
Thursday, April 23, 5:30pm to 7pm<\/p>\n
On view: April 3 \u2013 May 2<\/p>\n
Morean Arts Center: 719 Central Avenue<\/p>\n
For\u00a0State Flower Ladies, June Bunch transforms 50 state flowers into botanical ballerinas. Her illustrations combine figure drawing with floral theatrics, adding elements of vibrant colors and texture-rich embroidery to her work. In an instant, her images stretch the viewer\u2019s eye past the present to see the blossom\u2019s full-seasonal vitality, summarized in one frozen motion.<\/p>\n
Bunch curates contemporary illustrations by studying plants\u2019 \u201cchoreography\u201d of growth, illuminating their dance with vibrant colors and clean lines. Her visual art remains rooted in botany and ballet, featuring postures that hold emotional richness, highlighting human nature and flora in a bold, empowering way.<\/p>\n
The art is created first through expressive figure drawings and botanical sketches that are then translated digitally and drawn line-by-line with a pen-tool, tending to each marking with thoughtful detail.<\/p>\n
About the artist:<\/p>\n