Held on the evening a vicious storm whipped through New York City, spawning the notorious tornado that felled countless trees in its path, the opening reception for Leafless was eerily timed. This autumn flavored exhibition pairs two artists who turn to trees as subject matter. One artist, Benjamin Butler, dedicates his entire body of work to compositional investigations of the tree form, while the other, Glen Baldridge, uses depictions of trees as one of many tropes contributing to an accumulating conceptual psyche. While we have one focus on form and aesthetics, and the other on expression of spirit or concept, each artist does a fair amount of both. Read More