About

The artist Mayme Kratz travels extensively in the American wilderness; hiking, walking, and camping in wild places as well as traversing urban sidewalks near her home, collecting grasses, seeds, chaff, bones, shells, and stems. Kratz then arranges these collections in striking and atmospheric panels of cast resin, a material that is notoriously difficult to work with. Encased in the slow-drying, translucent resin, the artist’s exquisite and carefully positioned pieces of the natural world become expressive and poignant, forming a fascinating geometry of life. An exhibition of recent works by …