Hidden Forest
Barbara Roux

January 11 - February 5, 2005

Barbara Roux recollects a formative experience -a family life without an automobile in the not-quite-suburban-yet Long Island of the 1950s and 60s. She recalls a pensive and observant only-childhood spent walking on errands, to school, home and out again into the Long Island woodlands and wetlands. She explains, " developed not only a love of nature and feeling that I was a part of it, but I also felt the tension with nature, that it was sometimes unpleasant." Her complex relationship with the source material for her art is rooted in this sense of being of the natural world and in conflict with it simultaneously. The daughter of a Notre Dame-educated pharmacologist and amateur botanist, Roux's first lens in life is science. The art world is well accustomed to other fields of endeavor referring to crowning achievements as "art", but what to make of an artist who achieves an artistic crowning through science?