Gabriel Orozco: Plant Diaries, Summer 2023
Free Arts NYC, Creative Lab Program
. (This link opens in a new tab).Participants from Free Arts NYC's Creative Lab programParticipants from Free Arts NYC's Creative Lab program visited Gabriel Orozco's exhibitions on view in our NY gallery during June 2023. For this exhibition, Orozco presents a new series of paintings based on the ideas developed in his Diario de Plantas series (2021-2022), in which the impressions of the intricately tangled veins of leaves are accentuated by the line drawings of loops that recall the geometric form of the Möbius Strip. These interwoven shapes and imprints generate a dynamic of continuous movement and growth. Using Orozco's Diario de Plantas as inspiration, students created their own prints using leaves from local plants.
Creative Lab offers 9th – 12th graders an introduction to New York City’s vibrant creative sector. Youth and mentor pairs meet monthly, visit creative companies, artists’ studios, museums and participate in professional development workshops. The Teen Arts Program supports teens and young adults, ages 13–21 who are interested in exploring the arts academically or professionally. Through three interdependent tracks and paired 1:1 with a mentor, young people have the opportunities to build their visual arts portfolio, visit creative companies and artist studios, participate in skill building workshops and obtain paid internships. Their programming works towards building a more equitable space in the creative sector.
