Celebrated American photographer Lynn Goldsmith, renowned for both her celebrity portraits and fine art images, will present a unique exhibition at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens this summer. On view June 20 through September 13 at the Downtown Sarasota campus, Shared Light: Lynn Goldsmith combines stunning images of flowers with intimate portraits of Selby Gardens’ artist in residence – the legendary singer, songwriter, and poet Patti Smith. The exhibition features photography in the galleries of the Richard and Ellen Sandor Museum of Botany & the Arts and outdoor installations.
Goldsmith and Smith have been friends since the 1970s and the portraits of Smith are presented as diptychs and triptychs along with Goldsmith’s exquisite flower studies in the Museum exhibition. Goldsmith commented that “relationships unfold much the same way as flowers do — reaching toward light, opening in trust, bruised by time, yet carrying an elegance that survives even in fading.” In addition to the indoor exhibition, more of Goldsmith’s flower images will be positioned throughout the Gardens for visitors to explore outdoors.
About Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens provides 45 acres of bayfront sanctuaries connecting people with air plants of the world, native nature, and our regional history. Established by forward-thinking women of their time, Selby Gardens is composed of the 15-acre Downtown Sarasota campus and the 30-acre Historic Spanish Point campus in the Osprey area of Sarasota County, Florida. The Downtown Sarasota campus on Sarasota Bay is the only botanical garden in the world dedicated to the display and study of epiphytic orchids, bromeliads, gesneriads and ferns, and other tropical plants. There is a significant focus on botany, horticulture, education, historical preservation, and the environment. Selby Gardens’ Downtown Sarasota campus features the world’s first net positive energy botanical garden complex, generating more energy than it consumes. The Historic Spanish Point campus is located less than 10 miles south along Little Sarasota Bay. One of the largest preserves showcasing native Florida plants and active archaeology that is interpreted for and open to the public, it celebrates an archaeological record that encompasses approximately 5,000 years of Florida history. Marie Selby Botanical Gardens is a Smithsonian Affiliate and is also accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. Selby Gardens was selected for Time magazine’s annual list of the “World’s Greatest Places 2024.”
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