This summer NYBG presents a major site-specific exhibition by contemporary artist Ebony G. Patterson. The first artist to embed within the institution for an immersive residency, Patterson is working directly with NYBG’s gardens and collections to create spaces that evoke the natural world while simultaneously using beauty as an invitation to confront larger societal questions about race, gender, class, and violence. Her exhibition will provoke questions about what is traditionally considered beautiful and what is often cast aside as unwelcoming or threatening, seducing viewers into acknowledging darker truths lurking ominously beneath lushly planted surfaces.

This event will celebrate the opening of the exhibition, on view beginning May 27, through a dynamic conversation between the artist and Thelma Golden, the world’s premier curator of art of the African Diaspora and Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem.

More information on the event can be found here.