06/11/2026
NEW Exhibition Opening! 💐 🌸🌷🌻🥀
‘Anthesis: The Precise Moment of Bloom’
•Opening Reception:
Join us this Sun, Jun 14 // 2-4pm
•About the Exhibition:
Anthesis is the precise moment a flower bud opens into bloom, the fleeting stage when we most appreciate its beauty, fragrance, and splendor. It is also the moment when a plant releases or receives pollen, beginning the next cycle of blooms or fru
Yet there is a deeper beauty in understanding the entire process: the periods of rest and dormancy, the rise through the soil, the stretching toward light, the flowering, and the eventual fading. This cycle exists not only in the natural world, but within ourselves. When everything else feels uncertain or excessive, we can depend on the rhythms of nature to remind us that growth is never constant, and bloom is only one phase of becoming.
Anthesis: The Precise Moment of Bloom invites viewers to appreciate every stage of growth and the resilience required to bloom. Through artwork exploring plants from seed to flower to decay, the exhibition reflects on roots that ground and nourish us, the scent of petrichor after rain, and the quiet dormancy of winter that makes renewal possible.
Inspired by artist Ruth Asawa, who wrote, “You can't force a plant to bloom. It has a cycle. You have to tend it and care for it and wait for the bloom to happen. If you don't take care of it, it dies. The more experiences you have like this, the more you begin to understand your own cycle,” the exhibition considers how we, like plants, cannot remain in bloom at all times. Flowers become symbols not only of beauty, but of endurance, transformation, and resilience.
Mansfield Art Center is proud to present Anthesis featuring the work of Laine Bachman, Autumn Cadle, Kristen Cliffel, Margaret Freed, Chloe McEldowney, Emily Morgan, Ardine Nelson, Aaron J. Potts, Robert J. Putka, Lisa River Schenkelberg, Kelle Schwab, Eva Silina, and Barb Vogel Each artist’s work reflects a different point within the cycle, guiding viewers step by step through the interconnected architecture of the galleries and the shared rhythms that shape our lives.
Above all, Anthesis: The Precise Moment of Bloom celebrates the intrinsic beauty of flowers as reflected through human expression in art.
Find out more:
https://mansfieldartcenter.org/Exhibits/Exhibit/7e78863b-ff09-4a95-be6c-02cc322a2986
