Exhibition | Transartist Mary Ting in Plant Cure/ Brooklyn

Mary Ting, A ginseng and valerian root dangles in front of the haunted couple in the altar Born Still/Terror Nights. Our devotions and desperations converge in today's global lack of adequate health care.

PLANT CURE/Brooklyn
September 3 - December 13
Humanities Gallery, LIU Brooklyn
1 University Plaza (near DeKalb station)
Mon-Sat 9-6pm

The Plant Cure project began in 2017 with a collaboration of CENTRAL BOOKING and the New York Academy of Medicine in which five Artists in Residence researched their work at NYAM for an exhibition in CENTRAL BOOKING’s Lower East Side space. Various documentation of their process was also displayed in vitrines in the NYAM library at the end of their research. Fourteen additional artists with work on the theme of medicinal plants were curated into the CENTRAL BOOKING exhibition and were involved with event programming as well. But Plant Cure was meant to be a project that literally grew from place to place to incorporate more artists, institutions, and collections into a connective thread, with each additional collaboration involving new work while evolving the work of past participants. Brooklyn Botanic Garden seemed to be the ideal next location for the project, a childhood place of exploration for Maddy Rosenberg, the curator and project organizer of CENTRAL BOOKING.

For the exhibition at the unique glass enclosed Humanities Gallery, one that itself emulates a conservatory, a selection of the final work resulting from the residencies of these artists joins a conversation with the work from ten artists from the original project: Cynthia Back, C Bangs, Marisa Benjamim, Margot Glass,Tessa Grundon, James Martin, Susan Rostow, Sarah Stengle, Kate Temple, and Mary Ting.

Ms. Mandrake, Arboris, & Farmer Arboris reside in lab vials and flail their root limbs when pulled.

Viagra Fungus - the underside of our rare wild objects of desire.