The Midnight Garden
August 2026
Curated by Jessica Libor
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
Presented as a pop-up exhibition in Brooklyn Heights, The Midnight Garden centers on themes of cultivation, transformation, and unseen processes of growth. Framed as a space of quiet unfolding, the garden becomes a metaphor for creative practice and emotional life, where cycles of blooming, decay, and renewal coexist.
Bringing together a group of contemporary artists working across a range of perspectives and mediums, the exhibition explores our relationship to the natural world alongside more intimate ideas surrounding memory, identity, vulnerability, and change. Throughout the exhibition, organic forms and garden imagery become entry points into larger conversations about what it means to nurture something over time.
The Midnight Garden invites viewers to consider the periods of growth that happen quietly, beneath the surface and often outside of view, before eventually revealing themselves in unexpected ways.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Elizabeth Bowels, Juliette Vaissière, Karma Shawa, Sarah Vaccariello, Cynthia Arieta, Amy Pleasant, Colleen Francis Smith, Sarah Schrift, YooRaRa, Lydia Congiu, Jo Gamel, Maria Ignelzi, Jennifer Prevatt, Gabriela Zerpa, Dottie Lo Bue, Yannie Yiyang Gu, Maria Daas, Rita Dee Peters, Lauren Woods, Jenny Brown, Eleanore Bernadas, Richard Glick, April Baez, Emily Hamel, Jocelyn Fine
