Dawn Clements: Paper Flowers

Lower Gallery
November 23, 2025 - January 12, 2026

Exhibition Catalogue

“Clements reminds us that you don’t need much—sheets of paper, ballpoint pen, and watercolor—to make something great, and that the most abiding pleasures may be found right in front of you. I have come to think of these drawings as love letters to the world.”

John Yau

“Like cinema, [my work] moves and the experience takes time and that maybe is slower. Some works of art are slow; they walk instead of run. I think a lot of my work is slow.”

Dawn Clements

“Part of deciding to draw the flowers every day was that, instead of me moving my point of view, the flowers are going to be constantly moving before my eyes. I said, ‘I want to do one every day because I want to see the change, to see how they live and die before my eyes.’”

Dawn Clements

“Everything is offered to the eyes’ delectation, as if it too could smell and touch... The artist’s ethics and aesthetics are evident throughout: she wants to honor the existence of whatever she is looking at.”

John Yau