GALLERY GUIDE
October 16, 2026 — January 23, 2027
Megan Bogonovich, Dark Botanicals 7, 2026
Sage Tucker Ketcham, End of Summer, 2025
Dark Botanica explores how contemporary artists are reinterpreting and transmuting the symbolism of flowers and plants, which have long been associated in art history with beauty, fragility, and romance. Exhibition artists work across an array of media to investigate darker concepts that lean into profound feelings of desire, mortality, and crisis. In these works, forms twist, mutate, or grow within their compositions, using the elemental energy of flora as an agent of change. Through themes of internal struggle, generational trauma, and gender politics, exhibiting artists dig deep, delving into personal identity, death, and the inseparable link between gender, sexuality, and plants. Dark Botanica brings together the work of Alina Bliumis, Cameron Davis, Dylan Griffin, Marcie Scudder, Megan Bogonovich, Sian Fan, and Sage Tucker-Ketcham, offering a strange, otherworldly bouquet of motifs that straddle reality and fiction, and plant the seeds for a deeper understanding of our natural world.
CHECKLIST
Alina Bliumis
Plant Parenthood, Althaea, 2026 watercolor on wood 13.5 x 10.5 x 1.5 in $2,800
Cami Davis
Poetic Ecologies Series, Listening for the Lyrics, 2023 acrylic on canvas 80 x 60 in. (80 x 180 in) $18,000
Plant Parenthood, Hellebore, 2026 watercolor on wood 13.5 x 10.5 x 1.5 in $2,800
Plant Parenthood, SweetFlag, 2026 watercolor on wood 13.5 x 10.5 x 1.5 in $2,800
Plant Parenthood, Barrenwort, 2023 watercolor on wood 13.5 x 10.5 x 1.5 in $2,800
Plant Parenthood, Blue Cohosh, 2022 watercolor on wood 13.5 x 10.5 x 1.5 in $2,800
Plant Parenthood, Canadian Wild Ginger, 2022 watercolor on wood 13.5 x 10.5 x 1.5 in $2,800
Plant Parenthood, LordsAndLadies, 2023 watercolor on wood 7.5x 10.5 x 1.5 in $2,800
Plant Parenthood, PeacockFlower, 2023 watercolor on wood 13.5 x 10.5 x 1.5 in $2,800
Poetic Ecologies Series, Encounter, 2023 acrylic on canvas 72 x 66 in. $12,000
Sian Fan
Stinger, 2022 digital animation, 30 seconds variable dimensions adapted images of Kate Bickmore audio by Ben Dixon of From the Deep Audio NFS
Dream Driver, 2022 digital animation, 30 seconds variable dimensions adapted images of Kate Bickmore audio by Ben Dixon of From the Deep Audio NFS
Sage Tucker Ketcham
Marcie Scudder
$7,500
$7,500
Contemplative Parting, 2026 oil on canvas 36 x 60 in
We are all Moroccans, 2026 folded paper, photography 48 x 24 x 8 in
$7,500
$4,500
Saying goodnight to today, 2026 oil on canvas 36 x 60 in
Dylan Griffin
Sudden Peak, 2026 oil on canvas 36 x 60 in
$7,500
End of Summer, 2025 oil on canvas 48 x 48 in $6,000 Lady Flower, 2026 oil on canvas 30 x 48 in $5,500
My Mother’s Garden, 2026 folded paper, photography variable dimensions
Frukt, 2026 archival pigment print 29 x 35 in $4,500
Zuhur, 2026 archival pigment print 29 x 35 in $4,500
Velo, 2026 archival pigment prin 29 x 35 in
Megan Bogonovich
$4,500
Dark Botanicals (Series), 2025–2026 glazed ceramic variable dimensions
Spanning, 2026 archival pigment prin 29 x 35 in
$1,800-$5,500 *series elements priced individually
$4,500
Dark Botanicals 19 (a,b,c), 2026 glazed ceramic 11.5 x 22 x 11.5 in
Snackskal, 2026 archival pigment prin 29 x 35 in $4,500
$11,000
Front Desk 1 and 2, 2026 glazed ceramic variable dimensions
Maria, 2026 archival pigment prin 29 x 35 in $4,500
$300 per tile All works courtesy of the artists
Alina Bliumis (b. 1972, Minsk, Belarus) is a New
York-based artist whose exceptionally diverse practice establishes a unique conceptual framework for each series, exploring the complex relationship between humanity, politics, and nature. Her work utilizes a variety of techniques and mediums while referencing relevant art historical contexts. Bliumis considers the destructive impact of human activity on the earth and its resources to envision alternate worlds. By inverting power dynamics, Bliumis reveals a deep, instinctual desire to connect with other living things and challenges the limits of control. Plant Parenthood, PeacockFlower, 2023 She received her BFA from the School of Visual Art in 1999 and a diploma from the Advanced Course in Visual Arts (professor Alfredo Jaar) Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como, Italy in 2005. She has exhibited at SITUATIONS, NYC; Ostwall Museum at Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany; The Aldrich Museum, CT; Musée de l’Homme, Paris, France; Le musée de l’Histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France; First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia; Busan Biennale, South Korea; Tokyo Biennial, Japan; Assab One, Milan, Italy; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC; Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France; Centre d’art Contemporain, Meymac, France; The James Gallery, The Graduate Center CUNY, NYC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Bat Yam Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel; The Jewish Museum, NYC; The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; Botanique Museum, Brussels, Belgium; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; and MAC VAL/The Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France. Her works are in various private and public collections, including MAC VAL/ The Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France; Le musée de l’Histoire de l’immigration, Paris, France; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia; Bat Yam Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel; The Saatchi Collection, UK; Harvard Business School; The National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia; Morgan Stanley Art Collection, NYC and Missoni Collection, Italy. Bliumis work has been reviewed in Cultured Magazine, Artforum, ART - Das Kunstmagazin, ARTNews, AnOther Magazine, Vogue Italia, Hyperallergic, and Art and Climate Change by Maja Fowkes and Reuben Fowkes as part of Thames & Hudson’s World of Art Series.
Megan Bogonovich (b. 1976, North Bennington,
VT) is a White River Junction, Vermont-based artist who creates highly detailed and intricate glazed ceramic forms. Her artistic instinct is to work with multiple components, creating intuitive and spontaneous compositions. Her commitment to decorative placement of ceramic objects in interiors merges the natural and the manufactured, resulting in unique, overgrown, and unpredictable creations. She received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD (1999) and her MFA in Ceramics from University of Montana, Missoula, MT (2003). Her work has been Dark Botanicals 7, 2026 shown nationally and internationally, in galleries such as Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Mrs. Gallery, Maspeth, NY; Kishka Gallery, Hartford, VT; and Gravity Gallery, North Adams, MA; and in museums such as The Kent Museum, Calais, VT; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND; Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR; and Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA. She is represented in Vermont by Kishka Gallery.
Cameron (Cami) Davis (b. 1954, Bridgeport,
CT) is a former Senior Lecturer and Instructor of Painting, Drawing, and Perspectives on Making, and Environmental Art. She considers her paintings, installations, and community environmental art projects to be her primary vehicle for exploring issues of conscious perception that are fundamental to navigating life in a warming and warring world. Her community Poetic Ecologies Series, Encounter, 2023 art activist projects have followed the climate change movement for the last decade. She is interested in exploring holistic aesthetics as a contributing factor towards cultivating the transition to a lifeaffirming future. Davis received her MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in 1981 and BA in Studio Art from the University of Vermont in 1976; with postgraduate studies in ecological theory from Schumacher College, Devon, UK in 1998 and 2015. Davis is the recipient of the Lee Krasner – Jackson Pollock Foundation grant for painting and Argosy Foundation and Puffin Foundation grants for painting in collaboration with composer Sam Guarnaccia. She has attended artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, CAN, and has exhibited throughout Vermont, New York, and San Diego. Her work is held in private and public collections nationally. Davis is a member of ecoartnetwork.org and continues to work in Charlotte, VT.
Stinger, 2022 (video still)
Sian Fan (b. 1992, Chelmsford, UK) is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist
working between Essex and London, where she is artist-in-residence at Somerset House Studios. Her work combines movement, the body, and technology to explore embodiment, identity, and human experience in the digital age. Drawing on a background in contemporary and aerial dance, Fan explores the magical potentials and everyday tensions of existing in between worlds. Fan received her BA from the University of Brighton and her MFA from Central Saint Martins. She is currently the inaugural Design Trust X V&A East Research Fellow, where she is researching her Chinese Hakka heritage and will create a new commission for V&A East’s Stories of Clothes season. From 2021-22 she was the Digital Wonderlands artist-in-residence at the V&A Museum, and prior to that she was an artist-inresidence at Alexander McQueen’s Sarabande Foundation from 2020-21. She has exhibited internationally with institutions including HEK Basel, MUTEK Barcelona, Kunsthal Rotterdam and FACT Liverpool, as well as producing work with Channel 4, the BBC, and Meta. Notable recent projects include False Idol, a solo show at Somerset House; Lure, a solo presentation and performance at Gazelli Art House for Women’s Art Week; and Glimmer, an interactive commission for the major exhibition CUTE at Somerset House. Sian also does lectures, seminars, and discussions and has worked with universities, schools, and institutions including UAL, V&A Museum, Norwich University of the Arts, Goldsmiths, DanceEast, and Whitechapel Gallery.
Dylan Griffin (Austin, TX) is a New York-based
still-life photographer. His personal work is compositional, capturing the dramatic stillness in everyday moments. From portraits in motion to abandoned buses to flat tires, Griffin extrapolates the strange beauty in spontaneous moments. Raised in Austin, TX, Griffin’s early involvement with the avant-garde company Hip Pocket Theatre led to his interest in the arts. He went on to study photography and received his BA from the University of North Texas before moving to New York in 1999, where he began his career. After Frukt, 2026 three decades of taking pictures, his approach to photography remains simple—to create environments that allow for spontaneity and natural beauty. Over his commercial career, Dylan has worked with a diverse range of clients such as Apple, FitBit, Bloomingdale’s, L’Oreal, Maria Tash, Harry Winston, Ralph Lauren, David Yurman, Aveda, Bobbi Brown, Movado, Kiehl’s, Elizabeth Arden, Shiseido, Milagro Tequila, Philosophy, Amore Pacific, McKinney, Tommy Hilfiger, Tory Burch, Hugo & Marie, Clinique, Microsoft, Kate Spade, La Mer, Estée Lauder, Athletics, ROKA Sports, Major League Soccer, Burton, Michael Kors, Prada, Calder Foundation, Baron & Baron, Laird + Partners, Bottega Veneta, and Wieden + Kennedy Japan.
Marcie Scudder (b. 1958, Montréal, CA) is a lens-
based, multidisciplinary artist. Her work threads the fine line between memory and material, body and landscape. Her practice revolves around themes of fragility and loss, renewal and resilience; an ongoing meditation on how we remember, what we carry forward, and what inevitably slips away. Raised by a mother who was both a Holocaust survivor and a fiber artist, Scudder has long understood art-making as an act of both survival and transmission. That inheritance lives in her practice today—photographs that are folded, stitched, and sculpted into paper forms, My Mother’s Garden, 2026 (detail) dresses, and installations. They become spaces of lineage, holding quiet conversations between generations while weaving together the deeply personal with the universal. Scudder holds an MFA in Visual Arts from Maine Media College and a B.Arch. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After three decades of running her own architectural practice, she turned to photography as a daily discipline that has evolved into a sculptural language of its own. Her work has been exhibited at the Wilson Museum at Southern Vermont.
Sage Tucker-Ketcham (b. 1978, Randolph, VT),
a 14th-generation Vermont native, builds lush scenes of foliage through layered paintings of her environment. Long daily meditative walks inform the canvas, as weeds and native plants emerge, flourishing from memory. Often disregarded, yet growing where no one would expect, blooms of daisies, black-eyed Susans, and grasses thrive on the canvas, as their bold, saturated hues plume and expand. Here, Tucker-Ketcham’s paintings become a purposeful question of time, nature’s cycles, and the journey of discovering a human’s place amongst the landscape. Tucker-Ketcham received a BFA in Painting from Maine College of Art & Design and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Tucker-Ketcham has My Mother’s Garden, 2026 exhibited at Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT; Provincetown Association and Art Museum and the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, ME; Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT; Greenwich Library, Greenwich, CT; and Flynn Center for the Arts, Burlington, VT. Tucker-Ketcham’s work has been widely exhibited in galleries in Burlington, VT; Boston, MA; Dallas and Fort Worth, TX; Greenwich, CT; Martha’s Vineyard, Provincetown, Boston, and Pittsfield, MA; Portland, ME; and Sarasota, FL. Tucker-Ketcham’s work has appeared in the Boston Globe, The New York Times, Art New England, Artscope, Seven Days, The Provincetown Banner, Hemisphere Magazine, Burlington Free Press, Greenwich Times, TimeOut, and NerdWallet among others. Her pieces are part of international private collections in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Her works are in corporate collections including Northfield Savings Bank, Vermont Community Foundation, National Life Group, The Hinds Loft, Delta Airlines, and Roundstone International among others.
Marcie Scudder, My Mother’s Garden, 2026 (detail)
Gallery Programs Family Art Saturday
October 24, November 21, and January 23, 1- 3 pm Get creative with your whole crew and enjoy an art-making activity inspired by BCA Center exhibitions.
Art Amplified
Fridays, November 20, December 18, and January 15, 6-8 pm Turn up the volume on your evening at Art Amplified! Stop by the BCA Center on select Fridays to connect with friends and neighbors and enjoy the gallery in a whole new way, alive with vibrant lights, DJs, live music, fun drinks, and immaculate vibes.
Dark Botanica Panel Discussion Thursday, January 14, 6-7 pm
October 16, 2026 — January 23, 2027
BCA’s fall exhibitions are supported in part by the Maslow Family Foundation. Dark Botanica has support from Higher Ground Presents, Red Wagon Plants, and American Meadows. Hospitality sponsors: Lake Champlain Chocolates, City Market Onion River Co-Op, and Sugarsnap Catering. Burlington City Arts is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council & the National Endowment for the Arts.
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