Indoor Art Exhibits | Blue Heron Nature Preserve

INDOOR ART EXHIBITS

Located in our gallery at 4055 Roswell Road NE

Artist: Dorothy O’ Connor
Title: Perception

Perception exhibits the culmination of Dorothy O’Connor’s art explorations at the Preserve as the Blue Heron 2024 Artist-in-Residence. This art experience transforms the Blue Heron gallery into an immersive installation experience where her sculptural bird mobiles, large photographic prints and found natural materials weave through the space for visitors to delight in.

Dorothy O’Connor has received grants from Possible Futures, FLUX, Forward Arts Foundation, Art on the Beltline, Crusade For Art, Fulton County Arts and Culture and City of Atlanta ElevateART to present her installations as public art. In 2013, she spent two months as Artist in Residence at Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, TN where she constructed her installation, Shelter. She is a Hambidge Fellow and was part of the Hambidge Hive Collective in 2017. 2019 concluded with a solo show of her photography series, Scenes, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. Ms. O’Connor’s work is part of the permanent collections at MOCA GA, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, the Center for Fine Art Photography, Fulton County Arts and Culture, and is included in numerous private collections.

Instagram: @dorothy.oconnor.9

Exhibit Dates: October 15 – December 31st, 2024

Viewing Hours: Monday-Thursday, 10am-4pm or by appointment

For appointment or other inquiries email, sallye@bhnp.org

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Previous Exhibitions

Artists: Allen Petersen
Title: Pollination

Pollination explores themes of society in both bee and human lives, reflecting on humanity’s journey through existence and the connection of bees with the rest of nature.

Artists: Leslie Drennan, Heather Bird Harris, Cheyenne Hendrickson
Title: Canary in the Water

Canary in the Water is a group show curated by Jeremy Bolen and Pam Longobardi comprised of work from three Georgia State University graduate artists.

The nature-inspired exhibit can be enjoyed through June 9th in the Blue Heron Nature Preserve Indoor Gallery, in conjunction with the 2024 Art of Nature exhibition.

Artist: Caleb Jamel Brown
Title: Nocturne: Chirping at the Ground

Nocturne: Chirping at the Ground is a presentation of a site-specific sculpture/bat house and accompanying exhibition of preliminary drawing, leather works, paintings, and small-scale sculptures.

The sculptures and functioning bat house take inspiration from Muskogee (Creek) and East Cherokee indigenous people’s folklore and symbolism associated with animals found in the four distinct habitats found on the Preserve: big brown bat / woodlands, eastern box turtle / wetlands, river otters / riparian creek areas, and great blue heron / meadows.

In addition, Caleb’s functioning bat house is a permanent installation located in the wetlands off Emma Lane.

Artist: Amanda Banks
Title: Garden Party

This exhibition is the first look at a developing installation project created as a physical space to rest, relax, and observe human relationships with the Earth and with each other. It is a soft simulated garden made using an array of thrifted, foraged, found, donated, and trash materials from the areas have and I will be working in.

This garden is an in-between-place, a place of reclamation and new growth evidenced by natural forms in various stages of birth and decay. Reminding us that life will always find a way and that while we are
still here, there is time to enjoy it.

Artist: Krista Grecco
Title: Meandering
September 2023

Artist: Makenzie Heinemann
Title: Visions in the Trees
November – December 2022

Vision in the Trees exhibition showcases large-scale canvas pieces and intimate watercolors from Dallas, Texas-based artist Makenzie Heinemann.

The artist notes, “I make work that references the natural world, but delays recognition. My work follows the tradition of the Sublime through expansive landscapes, but it does not seek to overwhelm. Instead, it exists in spaces like a low hum, requiring a sensitivity for viewing.”

Artists: Katie Hargrove and Meredith Laura Lynn
Title: Mirror Muir: The Cumberland Mountains
August – October 2022

This interactive exhibition was inspired by celebrated botanist John Muir with his walk from Kentucky to Florida. Visitors will appreciate how these artists unpack the complex legacy of Muir through the lens of John Muir Trail, a cobbled together series of paths through central Tennessee.

Tallahassee-based artist Meredith Laura Lynn and Chattanooga-based artist Katie Hargrave unpack the complex legacy of botanist and conservationist John Muir.

Artist: Dennis Famble
Title: Luminous Nature
July 2022

This exhibition celebrates the dynamism of nature and nocturnal experiences of wildlife. Through the creative use of paints, the pop art in this collection can be viewed in regular light, black light, and lights out as they glow in the dark.

Artist: Steven Anderson
Title: Shared History
Dec 2021

This collection shows an expansion of the artist’s Tree Rings body of work, using new materials and forms in painting and drawing to speak to growth, cosmic time, preservation, and destruction. The Tree Rings are a way of growing a drawing: the artist draws circles that closely follow the circle before it, expanding as the rings build and bring the form into existence. Named after the number of rings/years, these meditations on growth and time provide a larger context for our lives.

Artist: Wanda S. Hopkins
Title: The Art of Nature – Trees
Fall 2021

“Shuffling through burnt orange yellow and red leaves, one recalls days of childhood laughter, playful smiles as leaves go up and come down to fall back into the pile and be thrown yet again.”

Artist: Erica Angelica
Title: Euphoria of Nature
Summer 2021

“The Euphoria of Nature is based upon my spiritual, euphoric, and healing occurrences with nature and is inspired by my love of pop art and surrealism.”

Artist: Laura Davis Shainker
Title: Land, Water, Sky
Spring 2021

“I explore the arrangement of darks and lights and the mood of the subject. I’m inspired by the outdoors, so I gravitate toward landscapes, especially the Low Country.”

Artist: In Kyoung Chun
Title: [ Cloud & Table ]
Winter 2021

“[ Cloud & Table]: These two words are the keywords which convey my life during a pandemic period. Table signifies eating, talking and working. One important object in my place/studio has been a table. And the cloud symbolizes outdoor life and living nature. I have gotten closer to nature over the socially distant moments.”