Alexa Kleinbard: Remedies June 8, 2012

'Remedies' is an exhibition of shaped, oil-on-panel paintings by Tallahassee artist Alexa Kleinbard. A self-taught painter, for more than thirty years Kleinbard has explored folk medicines, scientific advances, the environment and the unsettling role of humans in the balance of nature through her work. In this series of meticulously rendered and richly colored paintings, she has turned her focus to the wild medicinal plants of the Southeast and the endangered wetlands that sustain them. Sculptural portraits of these plants surround lush landscapes of their native environments, and seem to dance on gestural root systems.