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Modern Botanica | The Language of Petal, Stem, and Space

A Study in Botanical Expression—From the Minimal to the Mythical.

Where Form Blooms Beyond the Flower

In Modern Botanica, we turn our lens to contemporary botanical art—not as ornament or decorative flourish. Instead, as a complex visual language that speaks through petal, stem, gesture, and space. Rather than celebrating nature at face value, this curation probes the deeper structures and symbolic resonance of the botanical world. It reveals how flora communicates rhythm, memory, and emotion.

Across the collection, artists examine nature’s quieter patterns and boldest abstractions, allowing organic forms to shift between observation and imagination. This narrative unfolds across a spectrum of mediums and conceptual approaches. For example, lush photographic studies, sculptural interpretations, minimalist reductions, and painterly expansions that stretch the definition of the botanical itself.

Consequently, the works invite viewers to consider plant life not only as subject, but as metaphor—reflecting cycles of growth, decay, transformation, and renewal. From cellular repetition to cosmic symbolism, each artwork reframes flora through a distinctly modern lens. They offer a fresh encounter with nature that feels at once intimate, architectural, and endlessly alive.

A Contemporary Reinterpretation of Botanical Art

Gone are the lush romanticisms of the past. In their place, a more nuanced botanical aesthetic emerges—one where minimal structure meets visual seduction and clarity becomes its own form of allure. Here, artists resist nostalgia and instead distill nature into its essential forms, revealing the quiet tension that arises when restraint encounters sensuality. These are works that hover between geometry and emotion, between the microscopic and the monumental, inviting viewers to consider how scale, line, and atmosphere shape our perception of the natural world.

Whether drawn from natural science, spiritual symbolism, or pure abstraction, each piece acts as a botanical cipher—coded with beauty, tension, and presence. Within these interpretations, flora becomes more than subject matter. As a result, transforming into a visual language that communicates rhythm, transformation, and interior life. Leaves dissolve into pattern, petals morph into architecture, and stems elongate into gestures that feel both intimate and cosmic.

Ultimately, this is nature reimagined—not simply depicted. It is an invitation to look again, to lean into ambiguity, and to experience botanical form as both structure and sensation.

Featuring Artists Who Challenge the Botanical Art Norm

Included in the curation are works by Ross Bleckner, whose glowing cellular compositions pulse with metaphor and memory; Yayoi Kusama, whose iconic polka-dotted flora verge on the psychedelic and metaphysical; Bashir Makhoul, who explores the contemporary botanical art as cultural motif and spatial form; and Robert Mapplethorpe, whose floral photography captures the sculptural sensuality of nature with unrivaled precision. Together, they offer a narrative where the botanical becomes architectural, emotional, and at times, existential.

Designed to Elevate Curated Interiors

These botanical art pieces thrive in spaces that value organic restraint and contemplative beauty. Whether suspended in gallery-white interiors, modernist glass homes, or lush tropical settings, Modern Botanica offers a calming counterpoint to architectural rigidity—a visual reminder of life unfolding, quietly and powerfully, all around us.

This is not just a study of the botanical—it is a meditation on growth, structure, and the art of nature itself.

Explore the Collection.

in this contemporary botanical art, a blue sky has an orange and white faded flower like figure with a stem

Ross Bleckner ‘Untitled’ 2024, Oil on Canvas, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

green flower like figures float around the drawing as if they are alive

Yayoi Kusama ‘Night Flowers’ 2003, 24 Colour Screenprint, Ed. of 120

a purple flower from the perspective of the ground as if the stem if growing from the viewer

Ron Van Dongen ‘Rembrandt Still Lifes # 5’ Archival Pigment Print, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

blurry sunflowers layer on top of one another in front of green leaves

Ryan Mrozowski ‘Untitled (Shifted Flowers)’ 2025, Acrylic on Linen

a woman in a black and white suit carries a pink flower being the only color in the image

Winold Reiss ‘Young Woman Holding Flower’ ca. 1927, Mixed Media on Board

a person stands in the middle of the image while yellow leaves are scattered around them on a blue ground

Bashir Makhoul ‘Fractured Oblivion No. 1’ 2025, Oil on Canvas, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

in this contemporary botanical art, a blue vase has flowers floating around the air around it

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez ‘Dream Map and Cornucopia with Poppies and Irises’ 2023, India Ink and Acrylic Inks on Tyvek, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

3 people work in a field with a coffin and cross behind them while they pick up pills

Rachel Romano ‘In A Garden We Plant’ 2025, Oil on Linen, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

a red background with a green plant with blue petals

Emma Kohlmann ‘Electric Blue Plant’ 2024, Acrylic on Linen in Walnut Frame

a still life of yellow flowers

Enrico Minguzzi ‘La Schiusa’ 2025, Oil on Epoxy Resin and Gold Leaf on Canvas

blue flowers growing in a vertical striped pattern with a human figure standing in the background

Alia Ali ‘Floral’ 2022, Pigment Print on Photo Rag 310gr. with UV Laminate Mounted on Aluminum Dibond in Wooden Frame Upholstered in Dutch Wax Print Sourced from Senegal, Ed. of 2 + 2AP, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

glass like flowers float in front of green cacti

Philip Colbert ‘Flower Study’ 2021, Oil on Canvas, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

a white flower branch lying on a white floor with the shadow taking up the majority of the piece

Leon Belsky ‘Lily Lace’ 2016, Oil on Canvas, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

a contemporary botanical art consisting of many yellow flowers stacked on top of one another

Ryan Mrozowski ‘Untitled (Field)’ 2021, Acrylic on Linen

a pink and blue pop art style art piece

Andy Warhol ‘Kiku’ Screenprint, 1983, Screenprint on Rives BFK Paper, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

a dark drawing of a plant pot with a tiny tree growing out of it

Faris Heizer ‘Home Plant’ 2024, Acrylic on Linen, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

a floral landscape consists of the foreground covered in flowers and the middle ground is mountains with a large lake

John Moore (b.1941) ‘Two Bridges’ 2022, Oil on Canvas

a red face holds green leaves standing tall on a checkered floor

Tom Gerrard ‘Pot Plant Blue 2’ 2021, Synthetic Polymer and Spray Paint on Framed Artist Board

a close up photograph of orange, yellow, and pink flowers in what seems to be a garden

Ernst Haas ‘Ranunculus, NY Botanical Gadens’ 1974, Vintage Dye Transfer Print, Printed 1980’s, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

a black and white photograph or an orchid blooming in this contemporary botanical art

Robert Mapplethorpe ‘Orchid’ 1987, Gelatin Silver Print on Paper, Ed. 10 of 10, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

a purple abstract contemporary botanical art with yellow and green strings

Matt Wedel ‘Potted Plant’ 2021, Gouache on Paper

a centerpiece of green trees and bananas sit on a wooden table in this contemporary botanical art

Rene Martin ‘DULCE NACIMIENTO’ 2022, Acyrlic on Canvas

this contemporary botanical art sculpture demonstrates a pixelated and sharp flowers

Lyndi Sales ‘Plant Medicine Healer’ 2021, Acrylic on Paper, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

a white flower has gradient of green at the bottom

Ron van Dongen ‘Zantedeschia Aethiopica’ 2005, Archival Pigment Print

a horizontal row of purple and white flowers grow side by side with a black background in this contemporary botanical art

Leon Belsky ‘Twilight Dance’ 2017, Oil on Canvas, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

a colorful vase still life with black flowers is covered with different patterns in this contemporary botanical art

Mary Finlayson ‘Green Vase with Monstera’ 2023, Gouache on Canvas with Maple Frame

a single green leaf has holes punched into it like drops sitting next to it

Delphine Burtin ‘Untitled’ from the series ‘Fragments’, 2018, Archival Pigment Print, Ed. of 8

in this contemporary botanical art, purple flowers flow like they are underwater

Balthasar Burkhard ‘Lisianthus (Open Blossom)’ 20th Century, C-Print, Ed. of 9

and green and blue flower that appear to be human figures making up the petals on a yellow background in this contemporary botanical art

Emma Kohlmann ‘Ochre’ 2024, Acrylic on Linen in Walnut Frame

a bunch of red roses blurry photograph in contemporary botanical art

Ross Bleckner ‘Untitled’ 2020, Oil on Canvas

a black and white contemporary botanical art drawing still life

David Hockney ‘Sunflowers II’ 1995, Etching with Aquatint, Ed. of 80, Includes a Certificate of Authenticity

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