Fred Tomaselli: Blooms Disrupted takes the garden as its primary subject, using it as a counterweight to the urgent rush of news and media. Resin paintings fuse organic matter, photographic collage, and dense ornamentation into botanical worlds of kaleidoscopic detail — flowers revealed as constructed collages, vines and ferns collapsing distinctions between time, location, and season. New York Times front pages are disrupted with gouache and collage, marginalized stories about climate and immigration replacing dominant headlines. In Month of August (evening), a Mexican sunflower pushes through a lattice of August 2025 headlines, holding nature's persistence against the ceaseless weight of the news.
