Acquavella Palm Beach is happy to current All of the Wild That Stays, Joani Tremblay’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and her first in Palm Seaside. The exhibition options a number of new work that span two signature our bodies of labor together with large-scale landscapes and intimate flower work. Working between her studios in Montreal, Canada and the Mojave Desert in California, Tremblay continues her exploration of our private and collective relationship with the pure world. All of the Wild That Stays can be on view from April 17 by means of June 15, 2025 at Acquavella Galleries’ Palm Seaside location.
Tremblay’s work explores each the bodily expertise of nature and our notion of it, which is commonly mediated by means of its ubiquitous illustration in media, informing what the artist describes as “portray from a constructed thought of place.” Eschewing conventional approaches to panorama portray, Tremblay begins every work by assembling supply supplies and pictures culled from on-line sources, in addition to by means of area remark, texts, and reminiscence, to create digital collages that evolve by means of many iterations. These amalgamated landscapes coalesce into compositions that she then interprets into portray. Slowly growing every canvas and floor by means of layered brushwork, Tremblay sees the act of portray as a possibility to imbue the work with an environment of its personal, one which appears each acquainted and fully otherworldly. By integrating numerous media, Tremblay constructs surreal utopias that immediate viewers to mirror on multifaceted perceptions of place.
The artist can also be impressed by literature, and most of the landscapes on this exhibition take their cue from books about nature and land conservation. One place to begin for Tremblay was Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a 1974 e-book that gives a collection of non-public reflections on the altering seasons and wildlife of the Blue Ridge Mountains close to the creator’s dwelling in Virginia. Within the portray Northing (2025) Tremblay refers on to a chapter in Tinker Creek, which defines “northing” as a want to maneuver geographically upwards in direction of the spareness of winter, embodying one thing purer. Within the portray, Tremblay creates a serene view of a nighttime sky over huge hills which are lined in a rolling fog. Rendered in a palette of deep blues and indigos, the panorama is quietly illuminated by a heavy moon above. The composition is framed by a skinny violet band that attracts the viewer’s consideration to the enveloping panorama inside.
Tremblay’s work can also be deeply influenced by her personal private experiences with landscapes, citing as inspiration “the sunshine and the chic skies and their vastness.” In The Land of Little Rain (2024), a portal of oscillating orange and purple opens onto a panorama of huge inexperienced hills with clouds bathed in good oranges and yellows rising within the sky past. Each lovely and doubtlessly ominous, their presence illustrates the power and volatility of the pure world. Right here additionally, the portray’s title comes from literature–a group of writing by the early twentieth century creator Mary Hunter Austin. In her e-book by the identical title, the creator meditates on the extraordinarily hostile situations and equally gorgeous fantastic thing about the lands discovered throughout the Mojave, a supply of inspiration for Tremblay, who retains a studio in the identical panorama. Like Agnes Pelton or Arthur Dove earlier than her, Tremblay’s observe calls again to the inventive lineages of those that had been equally impressed by the wild vastness of the American Southwest.
Alongside these landscapes are a set of Tremblay’s extra intimately scaled work of flowers. Paired towards the sky or abstracted vegetation, the flowers aren’t grounded in any defining background or setting, which lends these works a dreamy high quality. Tremblay focuses her consideration on a myriad of blooms not particular to anybody area or local weather, not in contrast to botanical illustrations. The works vary from the sturdy Aloe (2025) to the hothouse tropical Heliconia (2025). Whereas these work are extra contained than her sweeping landscapes, Tremblay’s flowers are equally evocative by means of her virtuosity in wealthy coloration and supple brushwork.
