Chandler Gallery is pleased to present Flora + Fauna, a group exhibition on view from September 12th through October 24th, 2026.
Humans have always looked to the natural world to catalogue it, to understand it, to use it, and to make sense of their own place in it. Flora + Fauna brings together work by artists who engages this fathomless relationship.
The works span a wide range of approaches. Some are scientific in the approach of their subjects, precise and observational, nodding to the traditions of natural history illustration. Others are more symbolic or spiritual, and use abstraction or materiality as their primary language. Others construct their works from natural materials, or layer images of the natural world with human record and history. Some artists work directly from the landscape, returning to the same places across seasons. And some works address what happens when the human hand inevitably intervenes, tracing the ways our presence shapes, disrupts, and transforms the living world around us.
What connects the works is the position of the human eye as curious, reverent, and inextricably implicated. These artists are not outside nature looking in; they are part of it, and their work reflects that entanglement. Whether rendered with scientific precision or loose abstraction, with admiration or quiet unease, the plants and animals in the exhibition are not merely subjects. They are interlocutors: the things we look at in order to better understand where we stand.
This exhibition is in memory of Jane Rosen.
