Wendy Artin’s 2023 exhibition Livia's Garden. Rome-based, Boston-born artist Wendy Artin brings the past to life with her new collection of radiant watercolors based on frescos from. Classical Rome. Complimenting the dense paintings of ancient gardens are light, almost abstract, sanguine nudes of female figure models.

At the heart of the show, chirping colorful birds play in the 1st century BC frescos of gardens inspired by the Villa of Livia, housed at the Museo Nazionale Romano di Palazzo Massimo in Rome. Packed with fragmented layers of color and shallow perspectives, the painted gardens feel ancient yet contemporary.

"Livia’s garden is a soft and wild paradise. Surrounding myself with painted nature has been lovely, challenging and liberating,” said Artin. “But frescoes are made with opaque paint, often with light forms on top of a dark background, which you cannot do with transparent watercolors. I tried to make my paintings as beautiful as the frescoes that inspired them, but different, allowing the watercolor to flow as celestial washes of Mediterranean skies, touched by ancient ochres.” More on the exhibition

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