OPENING RECEPTION: Nature on the Rocks by Guy de Potesta
Join Morton Contemporary for the opening reception of Nature on the Rocks by Guy de Potesta, on Saturday, December 13th from 6:00 – 8:00pm.De Potesta's surreal, dream-like canvases reveal the unsettling realities of a world undergoing rapid environmental degradation. Known for pairing wildlife with human-made objects in humorous, improbable ways, de Potesta uses absurdity not as escape but as a sharp lens on a natural world increasingly strained by human materialism.Long fascinated by the fragile relationship between nature and human consumption, de Potesta constructs a world through painting where scale and habitats distort. His animals—majestic, vulnerable, dignified— inhabit drinking glasses,