Carly Glovinski on how gardening, women writers, and the New England landscape inspired her new exhibition at Morgan Lehman Gallery.
“Gardening came and found me pretty hard,” laughed the New England native during a conversation earlier this spring. Recently, Glovinski opened “Into the Garden,” her third solo exhibition with New York’s Morgan Lehman Gallery. In this show, she explores gardening both as an actual extension of art-making and a parallel practice rooted in tending and time.
The artist first became interested in gardening while in residency at Surf Point in southern Maine. There, she discovered that Surf Point’s grounds had once been home to Wild Knoll, the house of the prolific 20th-century author May Sarton. Sarton’s 1977 book The House by the Sea detailed her garden and the home where she lived for 22 years. Wild Knoll was demolished some years ago, and the grounds had become overgrown.
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