Fresh Cut: Summer Florals

NAVA Contemporary is pleased to present Fresh Cut: Summer Florals, a selection of work by six artists celebrating the sensory richness of late spring and the anticipation of summer. Fresh Cut invites viewers into a world of color, atmosphere, and growth, offering a meditation on cycles of emergence, change, and the beauty found within moments of transition.

As spring gives way to summer, the natural world reaches a moment of fullness. Blossoms unfurl completely, colors deepen, and the air grows heavy with warmth and possibility. This collection embraces that transitional moment through a celebration of floral motifs, exploring flowers as symbols of vitality, transformation, abundance, and impermanence.

Across painting, photography and works on paper, the artists in this presentation approach florals in deeply personal and varied ways. Some works capture the lush energy and brightness of the season, while others reflect on the fleeting nature of beauty and the tension between blooming and fading. Organic forms become vessels for memory, emotion, movement, and renewal, revealing the enduring power of nature to mirror our inner lives.

Gordon Douglas Ball's work deals with alienation, loneliness, and artistic independence. Informed by his early interest in photography, his current work concerns creating images of simplicity, kindness, and ultimately something that could offer a level of escapism from the world of today.

David Burdeny's haunting and deeply evocative aerial photographs deconstruct the relationship between man and nature. Geometric patterns and amorphous, sinewy shapes create graceful and vibrant abstract compositions that belie a provocative narrative about man's impact on the natural world. The powerful interplay between color and light, coupled with a remarkable sense of spatial infinity, captures the transcendent experience of seeing nature as art.

Ty Clark evokes a lifetime of art-making, cultural exploration, literature, and deep inquiry into the human consciousness in his frenzied, gestural technique. He applies layers of text and paint, charcoal and oil in a dizzying assembly, ultimately resulting in a fresh, contemporary, graphic style.

Joseph Conrad-Ferm's intention is to reveal a complex and timeless process that is easy to engage with. In his own words, "I've been able to express the joys and pitfalls, of my total life experience, through a language that's universal."

Erin Treacy's work features fantastical, amorphous figures that take inspiration from the natural world. Her fluid linework and vibrant color palette evoke flowers, fallen tree boughs, insects, and underwater crustacean.

Sonya Yu's quiet yet vibrant photographs capture the beauty of mundane objects, breathing life into classic still lifes. Heavily influenced by Dutch master painter Johannes Vermeer, Yu's creative process is anchored in the strict exercise of analog photographic techniques and the meticulous use of natural light.