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FORT WORTH'S PREMIER PLACE TO LIVE, WORK, PLAY AND LEARN

In the Night Garden

  • 5 Sep 2021
  • 12 Dec 2021
  • Amon Carter Museum, 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. Fort Worth, TX 76107


Immerse yourself in a colorful botanical world full of giant insects, flowers, and plants created by Houston–based artist and Rice University professor Natasha Bowdoin. Inspired by the Carter’s collection and the artist’s abounding interest in literature, from fairytales to transcendental poetry, In the Night Garden defies the senses, offering us a moment to pause and reimagine our relationship to the natural world.

A blonde woman with her hair pulled up on her head looks off to her left from behind large-scale, cartoon-like botanical illustrations

In the Night Garden draws together inspiration from the Carter’s 19th-century paintings, botanical prints, and archival materials with the artist’s broader interests, ranging from children’s book illustrations and Greco-Roman mythology to comic books and textile design. Created from cut paper and collaged boards, a large-scale installation made of buoyant yet looming oversized vegetation is accompanied by intricate watercolors that exude ecological fantasies and upend traditional feminine associations with botanical themes. Come and experience In the Night Garden, where you’ll embark on a journey into an uncanny world of nature’s unrelenting powers and mysteries.

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