💐 The Floral Impulse 💐 Curated by Xaviera Simmons opens November 29th at David Castillo ⁠ Featuring the work of over 25 artists, working in painting, sculpture, photography, assemblage, and video, the exhibition contemplates the long history of the floral still life genre and the mythologies, symbolisms, and historical references encoded within pictorial representations of flowers. From humanity’s earliest recorded histories, the flower has served an intimate, sensual, and visceral role as a subject of allegorical meaning. Florals have long ornamented and bloomed across fundamental aspects of life as expressions of mourning, growth, remembrance, love, beauty, ritual, and resistance. In the inverse, flowers have at times been coded as shallow tokens of adornment or decay. Their uses and representations span time, place, and culture, in many ways forming a familiar and unifying grammar that connects human experience across its myriad conditions.⁠ ⁠ Join us for a public reception, Tuesday, November 29th, from 6-8pm. ⁠ ⁠ Link in bio to learn more 🔗 ⁠ ⁠ Image credit: Xaviera Simmons, Floral (Two), 2022. ⁠