GARDENS
ZARA FINA STASI
September 2025
This show is about gardens. Gardens being, what you tend, care for, nurture, grow, choose- day in and day out. What do you tend?
What do you plant now, but not see the fruits of your labor for many, many years. If ever? What are you bringing to life here on this earth? What are you pulling out? What do you make room for? Deliberately, essentially, aware.
You get to decide what you grow. Let it be good.
Works
The girls. Oil on unstretched canvas.
Centered. Collage on paper. (top left) One day. Oil on recycled cardboard. (top right)
Flowing. A selection from oil paint on recycled cardboard installation. (middle right) Summer Picnic. Collage on canvas. (middle left)
Prep sketches, pears, tomato plants. Oil pastel on paper. (middle)
Lila. Watercolor on paper. (bottom left) A study, figure. Collage on paper. (bottom right)
Of the rocks. Oil on unstretched canvas.
The first landscape. Collage on canvas.
Devotion, clean air. Paper collage, roots.
Devotions, family. Paper collage, roots (top left). Devotions, dreams. Paper collage, roots (top right).
Devotions, neighborhood. Paper collage, roots. (bottom left). Devotions, future generations. Cardboard and paper collage (bottom right)
Gaia, Mother Earth. Collage on canvas.
Richmond greens, 1 -4. Waterbased paints on paper.
The universe, part 1. Collage on paper.
The universe, part 2. Collage on paper.
Matoaka. Water-based paints on paper. (Top)
The rivers. Water-based paints on paper. (Bottom)
Indoor fig tree. Oil on canvas.
Indoor fig tree. Oil on canvas. (top left) Ciao Roma screen printed scarf. (top right)
New York screen printed scarf. (bottom left) Summer berries. Collage on canvas. (bottom right)
Our garden, July. Oil on unstretched canvas.
The sky, the sea. Collage on raw canvas. (front)
The land, the core. Collage on raw canvas. (back)
Underneath. Collage and wire suspended.
Collaborations - Terrain tablewears, Anthropologie tote bag, William and Mary Mural, NYC DOT Mural, Vickers Reality Mural, Terrain table cloth.
In the mountains. Water-based paints on paper. (left)
Prepping the ground. Roots from the maple tree, pulled out, string, collaged paper. (right)
The Opening
September 9th, 2025, The Peddie School Galleries, Hightstown, NJ
The opening included a Q+A with the Peddie community as well as teaching a class with the AP Art and Honors Art Students.
