Root & Branch

Rooted in photography but branching out into every department in the Museum, this exhibition looks at trees and branching structures in art, nature, and information design.

The objects included—diverse in technique, cultural origin, and sensibility—are united in their creative use of a single form, the branching figure, to suggest the contagious nature of growth, the optical power of profusion, and the deep and global inherence of trees in the visual imagination. 

Check out the curator’s diary about Root & Branch, including images from the exhibition and beyond it: rootandbranchexhibition.tumblr.com

Root & Branch has been made possible by the generous support of the Virginia and Bagley Wright, Class of 1946, Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art and by the Bagley Wright, Class of 1946, Contemporary Art Fund.