Garden of Delights: Blooming Opening Reception

When

Fri, Jul 18, 2025    
5:00 pm-7:00 pm

Where

ArtYard Kingston
80 Smith Avenue, KINGSTON, NY, 12401

Event Type

With the summer’s zenith, Garden of Delights enters its Blooming Stage—a moment of heightened transformation—where outdoor sculptures, the living garden, and opportunities for human interaction converge in full expression. 

This phase marks a turning point in the evolving exhibition, as new artists and rotating works are introduced, echoing the ongoing cycles of growth within the garden itself. This includes the exhibition’s expansion into the site’s interior galleries, where new paintings, sculptures, and installations will be on display—providing an artful on-site respite from the high sun. 

Featuring a rich cross-pollination of perspectives and mediums, Garden of Delights blurs the boundaries between aesthetic and function. Interactive sculptures sit alongside mobile garden beds, irrigation systems, fountains, and spaces for both private reflection and communal gathering. This vibrant mix of forms highlights the vital role green spaces play in reimagining urban environments—not only as places of beauty but as essential infrastructure for social, ecological, and emotional well-being.

With each shift in season and installation, the garden transforms, offering new narratives and visual languages that speak to sustainability, renewal, and the re-centering of humanity within the natural world. The exhibition becomes a participatory space, an oasis in the city, where art and ecology grow together in real time.

The Blooming Stage is not a culmination but a continuation—an open invitation to witness change, engage with place, and imagine a future where the lines between culture and cultivation dissolve into something more resilient, more generous, and deeply rooted in care.

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