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Marilla Palmer

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Marilla Palmer is an artist from Brooklyn. Her mixed media works navigate the unexpected overlap of the organic and artifice. Dried flowers, foliage, and prints of spores are delicately combined with holographic paper, sequins, and wrappers to embellish renderings of found branches and plants.

At first glance a celebration of the femininity of nature, upon closer inspection it’s clear that Palmer is probing deeper. She selectively reveals the decay of her natural materials through the mask of her glamorous synthetics, questioning the power to fully transform through adornment. The worlds of the organic and inorganic — which are usually engaged in a battle for territory — come together to create a uniquely intimate portrait of Palmer’s surroundings.

Artist Statement: “Artifice and nature are uneasy bedfellows, but this has always been where my interest lies. The focus of my last show “Optimism Reigns and Rains” was more about artifice: LED projections on crystal rain showers, tree fungus, tiny mirrors. In this exhibition “Nature Burlesque” the focus has shifted more toward the natural, but the botanical renderings are tricked out with sequins, holographic rainbows and glitter. My studio looks like the day after a storm that somehow twirled together deep woods and a burlesque dressing room. Branches piled with vintage velvet leaves, sequins on top of mushroom prints and fungi, crystals and dead flowers are all over the place. The shadows of the twigs and branches are traced and then rendered in ink on paper. Favorite trees in Moscow, Uxmal or Stella Maris are photographed, printed out and collaged with the renderings of branches, pressed real foliage, holographic papers, spore prints, velvet leaves, sequins, embroidery. Botany, decay, glamour and artifice.”

  • Photo of Floral Creativity, 2021 artwork
    Floral Creativity, 2021
  • Photo of Narcissism, 2022 artwork
    Narcissism, 2022
  • Photo of Embroidered Flower, 2022 artwork
    Embroidered Flower, 2022
  • Photo of A Gift of Flowers, 2022 artwork
    A Gift of Flowers, 2022
  • Photo of Butterfly Statice, 2022 artwork
    Butterfly Statice, 2022
  • Photo of Sweet Ranunculus, 2022 artwork
    Sweet Ranunculus, 2022
  • Photo of Blue and Gold, 2022 artwork
    Blue and Gold, 2022
  • Photo of Sweet Orchids, 2022 artwork
    Sweet Orchids, 2022
  • Photo of Daylily Becomes Silk 2021 artwork
    Daylily Becomes Silk 2021
  • Photo of Cascading Seasons 2021 artwork
    Cascading Seasons 2021
  • Photo of Bees and Statice, 2022 artwork
    Bees and Statice, 2022

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