Painting the Urban Forest

Goya Contemporary
Goya - Girl Press
3000 Chestnut Ave  Baltimore MD  21211 
410.366.2001
www.goyacontemporary.com

May 22 - July 5, 2008

In 2008, my husband, graphic designer Lew Fifield, and I designed banners for the Urban Forest Project. We occasionally collaborate on projects combining my painted and digital images with his type and graphic know how. A series of our related banners designs were hung in Baltimore's parks. They depicted leaves, branches, flowers and pods of trees that grow in Baltimore or varieties familiar to Baltimore's residents. 

Throughout history many cultures have used trees as symbols, symbols of life's precarious complexity, of fertility and family, of knowledge, life, sin and redemption. Both of us have strong environmentalist beliefs that influence our fine art and design work and the way we live our lives. 

The trees we chose to represent on our banners include the gingko, magnolia, cypress, eucalyptus laurel and oleander. The paintings exhibited in Painting the Urban Forest at Goya Contemporary incorporated the images on which we based the banner designs and include Magnolia Disjuncure, Gingko Royal, Cyprese Toscana, Euclaypt Medusa, Toxic Beauty: Oleander and six of the Immortal panels.