Beyond the Lost Garden by Mark Messersmith - Opening Art Reception

Venvi Art Gallery is pleased to present Beyond the Lost Garden, Mark Messersmith’s fourth solo exhibition with our gallery. Mark Messersmith creates stunningly beautiful and vibrant paintings depicting North Florida’s flora and fauna. Through intricate layering of subject matter, Messersmith gives viewers a seemingly endless scenery to explore the dense, tangled, and fragile natural world, as it and its inhabitants desperately try to survive. With electrifying compositions mediating the beauty, chaos, and tragedy that exists in our modern environments while technological advancements have made human life more convenient and comfortable. Messersmith depicts how the natural landscape and its inhabitants are too often violated and left to deal with the consequences we created for them and in return, for ourselves as well. He expands by stating how “[his] work is really about our relationship to all other living creatures at this precarious moment, a place midway between hope and despair”. Join us for our opening reception Friday, September 8th from 5 to 8pm to meet with the artist – enjoying wine, charcuterie, and enchanting artwork!