Nature Up Close Exhibition Features Work of Millie Falcaro, M.F.A.
Open gallery
“This exhibition includes a variety of content, technique and media that documents the natural world, including plant life, flowers, birds and insects,” said Barbara Wing, manager of exhibitions at Brooklyn Public Library. “Viewers tend to take a moment to observe and reflect upon Millie’s unique, beautiful and surreal imagery of flowers.”
Falcaro’s plant life photograms, in varying stages of bloom, are metaphors for the cycles of life. Life, death, rebirth, separation, loss, growth and decay are universal experiences that occur repeatedly throughout human experience, and Falcaro internalizes these themes using this psychological landscape at the center of her work. She grew up in New York City where hot summer months would be punctuated by visits with cousins at their lake house. Her sunny days were spent cooling off in the water, lazing around on a raft and surveying the lake’s perimeter, collecting tad poles, looking for water snakes,and observing dragonflies’ flight patterns as they skimmed across the water. Falcaro’s interest in nature continues as she observes and collects specimens of the natural world within the confines of an urban setting. These childhood memories are revisited in her work in combination with the photogram process.
The Central Library is located at 10 Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, N.Y.Click here to learn more about the exhibition.
Marymount Manhattan College is an urban, independent, liberal arts college. The mission of the College is to educate a socially and economically diverse student body by fostering intellectual achievement and personal growth and by providing opportunities for career development.
Published: July 24, 2012
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