Jun 23rd, 2020 • 4 minute read
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The Guest Curation: Daisy Chaussée
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We are thrilled to welcome Daisy Chaussée as this week’s guest curator. Daisy describes herself as a late blooming, overachieving, East coast West-coaster whose favorite color is pink and whose favorite food is chocolate chip cookies. We have the daily pleasure of experiencing Daisy’s pure joy of life and genuinely kind, open-hearted spirit through her joyfully curated instagram account @daisychaussee. And now we are so pleased we get to enjoy Daisy’s thoughtful, poetic, and bright curation of some of our Art in Res artworks.
Take it away, Daisy!
About Daisy's Collection
Flora means ‘flower’ in Latin and represents the Roman goddess of spring and flowering plants, especially wildflowers. English preserves her name in such words as floral, floret, and flourish. What follows is a flourishing collection of floral art.

Cut Lilacs, Full Bloom
I believe art should either make us feel something or remind us of something. This piece did the latter –– reminding me of a sunny day in Seattle, a bouquet of lilacs wilting, but still beautiful in the harsh daylight. I like lilacs. I like that the name of the flower is also the name of the color of the flower. Edwina Lucas captures both the color and the flower in all their glory with soft brushwork, pale tones, and a touch of movement.
Edwina Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor, New York. Nature is the driving force behind Lucas’s work. She spends time immersed in the woods, gardens and beaches of her community, painting in plein air and gathering visual information. With each piece, she works to pay homage to her subjects, memorializing not only their physical features but also the feelings they awaken.
Cloisters No. 4
There’s something captivating about this piece by Camille Warmington. I can’t discern whether it’s the monochromatic colors, the abstract rendering of various plants, or the fact that Warmington was inspired by The Met Cloisters garden.
Camille Warmington is a painter whose work reflects on artifacts and their connection to memory and mortality, place and presence. She studied painting at the Glassell School of Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and earned a Bachelor of Interior Architecture from Kansas State University. Her paintings have appeared in national, regional, and local juried exhibitions, been featured in New American Paintings, # 120, Friend of the Artist, #10, and received a Hunting Prize nomination. A mother of three, Warmington was born in Massachusetts, grew-up in Dallas, and lives and works in Houston, Texas.
Lillipads
I noticed the textures and layers of this work before anything else. The collage of media keeps my eye dancing across the canvas, like a frog leaping from lily pad to lily pad. The depth Claire Price imbues in the painting immerses me further into the floral habitat.
Claire Price is a New Zealand born artist living and working in New York City. She has exhibited in New York, Boston, Paris and New Zealand, most recently at Maison 10 in Manhattan (October 2019 – February 2020) and previously at Ora Gallery (NYC) between 2016-2018.
Clematis Study
Another Edwina Lucas painting, I actually hadn’t heard of the ‘clematis’ flower upon viewing this piece. Thus, besides being drawn in by the pastel pinks (my favorite color), I was curious in learning more about this flower. The title Clematis Study is quite fitting then, inspiring me to literally study the Clematis, a flower that belongs to the buttercup family.
Shelter: The Burial of The Order Taker
This piece is perhaps the least obvious to include in the collection, as it’s not exactly clear if Kenneth E Parris III is depicting flowers or something else entirely. I like imagining this as a beautiful coffee table book cover or as a framed print hanging delicately in a kitchen. It makes me feel calm even in its dynamism.
Kenneth E. Parris III is a Brooklyn based Visual Artist born in Philadelphia, PA, raised in Austin, TX. He has exhibited across the United States and in numerous art fairs. His paintings and installations have been critically acclaimed, notably by: WalkerArt.org, NPR, Trend Hunter Art & Design, Fine Art Connoisseur, and Time Out New York. His original series of drawings and text titled "Drawing Dance" was featured for twenty-three weeks in The New York Times ArtsBeat and culminated in exhibitions in New York City, Houston, Philadelphia, and at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.
Curation by Daisy ChausséeVirtual installations courtesy of ArtPlacer