May 18 - June 22, 2019

Opening Reception:
Saturday, May 18, 2019 from 6-8pm

Closing Reception + Artist Talk:
Saturday, June 22, 2019 from 3 – 5 pm
 
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Rudolph Blume Fine Art / ArtScan Gallery is proud to present a solo exhibition spanning 25 years of Mary Howe Hawkins’ artistic works on May 18th, 2019. This exhibition titled, “Mary Howe Hawkins: Twenty Five Years”, will include hand-colored, hand-cut photographs of flowers alongside wire sculptures mounted on found objects. Landscapes featured in oil paint and photography ranging from different time periods in Hawkins’ life will also span the walls. Hawkins has the ability to see the beauty in the mundane and the simplicity in the intricate.
 
Hawkins develops her own negatives in a wet darkroom and even juxtaposes inverses of prints next to each other in a kaleidoscope-type arrangement that summons the symmetry in nature; nature being the primary inspiration for her work. She is an avid gardener, growing various plants and flora from seed or bulb, and photographing them at peak bloom. Her process of hand coloring the prints pre-dates color film and digital photography, a nod to a simpler time.