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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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