Touching Grass

Benedict Scheuer, Summer, 2024, hand-dyed 16mm Habotai silk, 45 1/2 x 82 in. Image courtesy of the artist.

Here, nature is not an abstract or distant ideal but a dynamic ground for relation—shifting from notions of preservation toward practices of mutuality and cohabitation.

Touching Grass will be on view at 508 Chung King Road through January 3. Please join us for an opening reception on November 21 from 6-9pm! For an exhibition preview or more information, please contact izzy@northloop.art.

North Loop West is delighted to present Touching Grass—an exhibition featuring the work of Cameron Cameron, Ryan Flores, Benedict Scheuer, and Pallavi Sen. Each artist engages with the natural world through distinct materials and approaches. In their practices, nature emerges as metaphor, teacher, and a source of personal and cultural meaning that invites acts of creativity.

Ryan Flores translates flora seen on walks in Los Angeles in intricately detailed ceramic forms—where luscious glazes reveal rot and decay, conjuring the inevitable passage of time. Cameron Cameron reclaims and remakes discarded materials from her studio and the streets of LA with an ethics of attention and repair that resists the accelerations of modern life. Scheuer and Sen turn to the garden—as a space of wonder, aesthetic inspiration, and collaboration, in new drawings and paintings on silk, respectively.