Cris Worley is proud to present our third solo exhibition of Dallas-based artist Celia Eberle. Unintended Garden opens with an artist’s reception Saturday, February 24, from 5-8pm, and will run through March 31, 2018. The artist will be in attendance at the opening reception. 

Throughout her 30+ year career, Celia Eberle’s work has reflected eternal themes that pervade the course of time. With almost childlike innocence, history repeats itself. All of the knowledge we have acquired over the years cannot seem to stop us from our basic instincts. The Unintended Garden looks at man’s relationship with his subconscious self, and in turn, with nature.

Eberle expands on man’s fateful relationship with nature in works like, “Moss Grotto”, a large-scale, ceramic “cavern” intended to provide respite for contemplation. Its shaggy, green glaze evokes dampness from an invisible source. The figure of “Neptune,” acts as a physical chimera of mythologies, conflating classical and Christian motifs into one “idol.” Themes of fetishism, loot, and plunder are underscored by the use of natural and often precious materials, and further illuminating our conflicting relationship of simultaneously worshipping and destroying mother nature. The Unintended Garden, is an elegy for processing this paradox.