Dornith Doherty

Dornith Doherty News: PRESS RELEASE: Dornith Doherty at The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden, September  9, 2024

PRESS RELEASE: Dornith Doherty at The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden

September 9, 2024

The Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden Presents Dornith Doherty's, Archiving Eden: Exchange from September 9 through November 17, 2024.

Curated by Shirley Watts, Archiving Eden: Exchange is an outdoor, interactive art installation evoking the power of collaboration in caring for the environment. Artist Dornith Doherty will present a transparent structure adorned with 5,000 vibrant x-ray images of native California seeds...

 

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Dornith Doherty News: PRESS RELEASE: Dornith Doherty - Illuminations at BRIT Feb 17th, January 31, 2023 - BRIT / Botanical Research Institute of Texas at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden

PRESS RELEASE: Dornith Doherty - Illuminations at BRIT Feb 17th

January 31, 2023 - BRIT / Botanical Research Institute of Texas at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden

The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden Presents Dornith Doherty: Illuminations - Past, Present, and Future of Fern Research with a panel discussion on February 17th at 7pm and a reception from 7 - 9 pm. 

Dornith Doherty: Illuminations - Past, Present, and Future of Fern Research is a tripartite environmental art exhibition emerging from a research-based creative collaboration with Dr. Alejandra Vasco, Research Botanist, Ana Niño, Librarian, and Tiana Rehman, Herbarium Director at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT). As an artist affiliated with BRIT since July 2021, Doherty investigated the crucial physical artifacts of botanical biodiversity research – from a collection of diaphanized plants made in the 1950s to a contemporary Andean biodiversity project focused on diverse ferns threatened by climate change and ecosystem disruption...

 

 

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Dornith Doherty News: PRESS RELEASE: Dornith Doherty included in Entanglements at Center for Visual Art, January 13, 2023 - Center for Visual Art

PRESS RELEASE: Dornith Doherty included in Entanglements at Center for Visual Art

January 13, 2023 - Center for Visual Art

Denver, Colorado –Entanglements explores our connections to the natural world. Through a variety of lenses, artists in this exhibition negotiate and engage with the environment, illustrating the complex relationships humans have to nature and its resources. These artists employ diverse approaches and intentions, bringing awareness to the current state of our environment to inspire action, giving discarded remains new life, or exploring regenerative capabilities of ecosystems...

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Dornith Doherty News: ARTICLE: Dornith Doherty in Smithsonian Magazine, June 14, 2021 - Roger Catlin

ARTICLE: Dornith Doherty in Smithsonian Magazine

June 14, 2021 - Roger Catlin

The Sad Truths Behind These Unsettling Works of Art: A new exhibition reflects on the haunting aesthetics of human impact on the planet.

Talk about unsettled. Just as a new exhibition titled “Unsettled Nature” that combined art and science—and the expertise of two Smithsonian museums—was about to open at the National Museum of Natural History in March of 2020, all the museums and much of the country shut down due to the Covid-19 pandemic...

 

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Dornith Doherty News: ARTICLE: Dornith Doherty in Seeds of Resistance at the Broad Museum at MSU, March 23, 2021 - Lawrence  Cosentino for CITY PULSE

ARTICLE: Dornith Doherty in Seeds of Resistance at the Broad Museum at MSU

March 23, 2021 - Lawrence Cosentino for CITY PULSE

One night this spring, on an undisclosed date, in an undisclosed patch of earth near MSU’s Beal Botanical Gardens, a group of excited plant biologists will follow a map to a treasure that is unique in the world.

They’ll dig about two feet down to unearth the 16th of 20 glass bottles, each containing 1,050 seeds, buried in 1879 by visionary MSU botanist William Beal. They will bring the 141-year-old seeds to a lab, plant them and see what germinates...

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Dornith Doherty News: PRESS RELEASE: Dornith Doherty - Atlas of the Invisible Opens November 21, November  6, 2020 - Holly Johnson Gallery

PRESS RELEASE: Dornith Doherty - Atlas of the Invisible Opens November 21

November 6, 2020 - Holly Johnson Gallery

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to present Dornith Doherty: Atlas of the Invisible. For her sixth solo exhibition at the gallery, Doherty presents new large-scale black and white photographs alongside a video projection. The exhibition opens November 21 with an open house from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m.

For over twenty years Doherty’s work has been concerned with our stewardship of the natural environment. This new project continues to explore that subject amid the effects of air pollution on migratory birds....

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Dornith Doherty News: REVIEW: Dornith Doherty at the Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK, November  4, 2020 - Giovanna L. Costantini for Leonardo

REVIEW: Dornith Doherty at the Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK

November 4, 2020 - Giovanna L. Costantini for Leonardo

The artwork, in the words of the writer Julio Cortázar, “is like the seed in which the giant tree lies sleeping.” From sunflower to rosehip, there may be no more metonymic sign for art than the seed, an embryonic kernel whose formation is part of vegetal reproduction that generates sustenance for life. Plants, the fruition of the seed, share with photography a light-driven process of development corresponding to photosynthesis. Imperiled by environmental circumstances, a photographic exhibition,“Seedscapes: Future-Proofing Nature” currently on display at the Impressions Gallery in Bradford, England, examines the response of artists to global conditions that threaten seed viability and the survival of ecosystems that allow all forms of life to prosper....

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Dornith Doherty News: REVIEW: Dornith Doherty at the Dayton Art Institute, November  3, 2020 - Susan Byrnes of WYSO's Culture Couch

REVIEW: Dornith Doherty at the Dayton Art Institute

November 3, 2020 - Susan Byrnes of WYSO's Culture Couch

In my hand I’m holding a random assortment of seeds I collected from a recent walk in a prairie. If I hadn’t collected them myself, I might think they were tiny specks of dry, broken grass or leaves. I might not even see them at all, they appear so insignificant, like dust or lint from the inner reaches of a pocket. 

In a new exhibit at the Dayton Art Institute called “Archiving Eden”, photographer Dornith Doherty turns her lens to the critical issue of seed saving, and global efforts to conserve the world’s food sources. Her compositions use Xrays of seeds and plants along with documentary images from facilities around the world working to sustain the planet’s biodiversity...

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ARTICLE: Dornith Doherty in Antennae #52

October 1, 2020 - Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth

A photographic project by artist Dornith Doherty, Archiving Eden considers the scientific, ecological, and philosophical implications of seed banks. The images range from documentary style to lyric compositions, including X-rays of seeds and the use of lenticular panels...

 

 

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Dornith Doherty News: PRESS RELEASE: Back & Forth: Celebrating Women and our Fifteenth Anniversary, July 21, 2020 - Holly Johnson Gallery

PRESS RELEASE: Back & Forth: Celebrating Women and our Fifteenth Anniversary

July 21, 2020 - Holly Johnson Gallery

Holly Johnson Gallery in Dallas is pleased to announce the opening of the exhibition Back & Forth: Celebrating Women on July 21, 2020. Back & Forth commemorates the fifteenth anniversary of the gallery and celebrates the centennial of the 19th amendment. The exhibition will continue through September 26.

Presenting sculpture, installation, paintings, drawings, and photographs, this exhibition highlights the varied creative practices and compelling artworks created by the distinguished women represented by the gallery and invites visitors to consider the centennial milestone in the context of a woman-owned business...

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