A celestial canopy of  botanical silhouettes using cyanotypes of native plants on three 12 ft long organic cotton spans the outdoor courtyard creating a sense of protection, meditation, community gathering space and refuge from the outside world. Group meditation sessions will be spontaneously held throughout the show. 

The work is an extension of her commitment as an environmental activist and international arts diplomat since her years as an artist in Egypt. The tents symbolize both shelter and migration, evoking the history of both voluntary and involuntary movement along with changing patterns have  long made migration and interconnection a fact of human life. This maximalist abundant space offers a new vision of nature’s remediating power challenging a dystopian future.

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Maryanne Pollock received her BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, Italy. She continued studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran College of Art and Design and American University. She represented the United States in a contextual exhibition at the 54th Venice Biennale, and in the Arts in Embassies Program in Egypt, and had solo exhibitions in Paris, Glasgow, Basel, and Cairo. Her work  has been included in exhibitions selected by Jennifer Farrell, curator from the Metropolitan Museum of Art,  and by Paula Morsiani of PAFA Brodsky Center at PrintMatters Houston. Publications include Home and Design, Luxe, Traditional Home, Professional Artist (cover), and the Washington Post. Collections of her work include Marriott Marquis DC, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Qatar Foundation and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.